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The Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods Library
The Paul
Brooks Collection
Paul Brooks (1909-1998)
From a sketch by Paul Brooks
"How much we see
depends on what we bring to the encounter."
—Paul Brooks "The Art of Seeing
Nature"
The Paul Brooks Collection
at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods consists of the natural
history and environmental writing library of the environmentalist,
writer and editor. As Editor-in-Chief at
Houghton-Mifflin for twenty-five years, Paul Brooks was editor for
both Rachel Carson and Roger Tory Peterson. As an environmental
activist, he was a prolific writer and editor. For his work, he was
awarded the John Burroughs Medal, the Sierra Club's John Muir Medal,
the Thoreau Society Medal, and the National Audubon Society's Hal
Borland Award, among others. Former Secretary of the
Department of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall, called Paul Brooks
"...a modern Thoreau, filled with radical, healing
forthrightness."
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