Henry David Thoreau threw down the gauntlet in 1854, and Walden is more relevant than ever. To Live Deliberately is our visual re-imagining of Thoreau's best-known essay, Where I Lived and What I Lived For.
Accompanied by 30 illustrations, the essay challenges the trappings of modern living and embraces an ascetic rejection of material excess and social distractions in exchange for a reconnection with nature as a path to self-discovery.
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Absolutely perfect! I’m so impressed with this seller and beyond thankful to have found their work! Thank you so so much for the extras also!
Thank you so much 😊 very excited to give for Christmas 🎄 and thanks for extra goodies too!
I purchases this book as a Father's Day Gift for my best friend. Wonderfully quick to ship and receive. Thank you so very much!
I decided to order these books in order to get a sneak peek at the products I'd already decided to support on Kickstarter. All five books were packaged together and with enough bubble wrap and paper to ensure they arrived without a scratch. They are smaller than I thought they'd be in person, but the contents are wonderful - with beautiful layouts of the text over gripping illustrations.
Bought as a gift for a friend shifting towards retirement. It was a perfect gift and well crafted.
It wasnt what i thought but she liked it.
Smaller than I realized, but well made and my daughter loved it.
Love these little books! This would be a great gift!
Book is absolute perfection. I will buy other books in their illustrated series in the future for gifts
Very nice booklets
These books are so cute and inspirational.
Thank you
Smaller than I expected, but I love it!
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Beautiful books. The perfect gift.
Much smaller than I expected
Neat take on Thoreau with creative artistic photos
This is a Beautiful book!
I knew they were small. But even smaller than I imagined. Top quality and besutiful though.
Came well packaged. Excellent quality.
Great seller. Item was just as it was described.
Love it
I bought this book for my son‘s 30th birthday and he loved it!
Really beautifully illustrated book by Henry David Thoreau.
Perfect gift for my daughter! Thx.
Excellent quality. Inspirational quotes and stylistic artwork.
Beautiful work, my students love them
Just what I needed. Thank you.
Can't wait to read this book
Love it!
3.5 rounded up because this version is really pretty.
That said, man, I used to love Thoreau. I don't dislike him now, per se, but I do have a running commentary in my head now when I read his work, namely because none of it, and I do mean *none* of it, was anything he did on his own. And the more you know about Thoreau, or at least the more I know about Thoreau, the more my inner monologue really, *really* wants to snark at him.
"I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately" - sure buddy, but also because you were living on your friend's land, which cost you nothing, and your mom lived right down the block, still did your laundry, and brought you lunch every day. You know, that type of snark. This is not to say that the ideas are not still lovely, because they are, but more of a reminder that the writer only presents what they want you to know and they control the narrative 100%.
This book is so cool! I love this concept. Hope they make more books!
I’d also love to see extra white spacing added for the spine so you don’t loose some of the image where the book is bound together.
I have been so pleased with the art produced by this shop’s and the owner’s communication. I absolutely recommend them.
Obvious State is a creative studio and publisher founded by Nichole and Evan Robertson in 2011.
We make bold, illustrated editions and art drawn from the classics.
Our books and prints are available in our shop and in bookstores and boutiques nationwide.
Our work has been featured at The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Writers Museum, The Emily Dickinson Museum, The Library of Congress, The Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art and more.
Every piece is illustrated by Evan Robertson — a single artistic vision applied to some of the greatest works ever written.
Provocative visuals paired with punctuated language, full of surprising visual metaphors, subtext, and insider nudges.
Our pocket editions are portable art objects made to collect, share, and inspire moments of quiet reflection in an overstimulated digital world.
We’re drawn to language that has stood the test of time, insights that strike a chord, poetry that stretches the imagination, and philosophy that prompts critical thinking.
