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What to read after Walden by Henry David Thoreau: 24 titles sharing themes of Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Ecosystems & Habitats, Essays, and Nature, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Thoreau on Water Reflecting Heaven

Henry David Thoreau

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry — Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Tight Lines Ten Years of the Yale Anglers’ Journal — Joseph Kingsbery

Tight Lines Ten Years of the Yale Anglers’ Journal

Joseph Kingsbery

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition An Alaskan Odyssey — Richard Louis Proenneke

One Man’s Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition An Alaskan Odyssey

Richard Louis Proenneke

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Rambles In The Rocky Mountains With A Visit To The Gold Fields Of Colorado (1864) — Maurice O.’Connor Morris

Rambles In The Rocky Mountains With A Visit To The Gold Fields Of Colorado (1864) — Maurice O.’Connor Morris

Maurice O.'Connor Morris

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Abundance Nature in Recovery — Karen Lloyd

Abundance Nature in Recovery

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

This America of Ours Bernard and Avis Devoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild — Nate Schweber

This America of Ours Bernard and Avis Devoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Voice of the Fish A Lyric Essay — Lars Horn

Voice of the Fish A Lyric Essay

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain Washington’s Olympic Peninsula — Tim McNulty

Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

The Living Mountain A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland — Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

WA IS WATER An Intimate Portrait Exploring Washington in Poems, Photos and Facts — Jennifer Preston Chushcoff

WA IS WATER An Intimate Portrait Exploring Washington in Poems, Photos and Facts

Jennifer Preston Chushcoff

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Birds by the Shore Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast — Jennifer Ackerman

Birds by the Shore Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast

Jennifer Ackerman

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs, and Hermit Bill Memories of a Wildlife Biologist in Maine — Ronald Joseph

Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs, and Hermit Bill Memories of a Wildlife Biologist in Maine

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

The Journals of Lewis and Clark — Meriwether Lewis

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

The Yosemite John Muir’s Quest to Preserve the Wilderness — John Muir

The Yosemite John Muir’s Quest to Preserve the Wilderness

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

A Line in the World A Year on the North Sea Coast — Dorthe Nors

A Line in the World A Year on the North Sea Coast

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Wildwood A Journey Through Trees — Roger Deakin

Wildwood A Journey Through Trees

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Essays • Nature

Songs from the Southern Oregon Coast — Gary Carter

Songs from the Southern Oregon Coast

Themes: Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature • Literary Collections

Garden Pools and Swimming Ponds Design, Construction, and Landscape — Richard Weixler

Garden Pools and Swimming Ponds Design, Construction, and Landscape

Richard Weixler

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

Fen, Bog and Swamp A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis — Annie Proulx

Fen, Bog and Swamp A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

Gator Country Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades — Rebecca Renner

Gator Country Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

Wild Britain The Century Book of Marshes, Fens & Broads — Richard North

Wild Britain The Century Book of Marshes, Fens & Broads

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

South Carolina Freshwater Fishes — Matthew Morris

South Carolina Freshwater Fishes

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

Totch A Life in the Everglades — Loren G. Brown

Totch A Life in the Everglades

Themes: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps • Ecosystems & Habitats • Nature

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