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The Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods Library
The
Edmund A. Schofield Collection
"How many a man has dated a new era in his
life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new
ones. The at present unutterable things we may find
somewhere uttered."
– Thoreau, Walden
 
Henry D. Thoreau
Edmund A. Schofield
Image taken 1856
Image taken 1956
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts[Archives
of the Thoreau Society]
"I would not have any one
adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside
that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out
another for myself, I desire that there may be as many
different persons in the world as possible; but I would have
each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own
way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's
instead."
– Thoreau, Walden
The Edmund A. Schofield
Collection consists of materials collected and created by Edmund
A. Schofield, Jr. (b. 1938), botanist, ecologist, educator,
editor, writer, and conservationist; former director and
president of the Thoreau Society; a founding director and
president of the Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance; and
president of Walden Forever Wild. Among materials in the
Collection are research materials, institutional records,
memorabilia and ephemera, artifacts, clippings, audio and video
tapes, CDs, maps, photographs (including aerial photographs),
scientific reports and papers, and correspondence.
The Schofield Collection was given
to the Walden Woods Project in honor of its founder, Don
Henley, in gratitude for his valiant efforts to preserve
Thoreau's natural, literary, and spiritual heritage for
future generations.
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