| 单词 | Thoreau |
| 例句 | Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They referred to him as Thoreau, the boy who lived on Peaks Brook Mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I don’t remember what the valedictorian said except that she quoted Henry David Thoreau instead of a pop song. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I wonder about things like the sounds and scents that surrounded Thoreau as he wrote each sentence and paragraph. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Even the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau said so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Thoreau, my body needs rest. Let’s give up,” he said after two bad starts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Gandhi had read Henry David Thoreau, who advocated exactly this view. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When I get to English class, Mr. Wise gives us a villainous smile that can only mean he’s finished grading our short essay quizzes on Thoreau. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They traced their philosophy to Thoreau and Gandhi, debating the great works of civil disobedience at Floyd McKissick’s office on Main Street in study and prayer sessions that often lasted all night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Thoreau, to protest slavery and what he saw as America’s unjust war in Mexico, had refused to pay taxes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They were from Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” written in 1849. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This was a woods for looming bears, dangling snakes, wolves with laser-red eyes, strange noises, sudden terrors—a place of “standing night,” as Thoreau neatly and nervously put it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In environmental terms, Thoreau, who saw the landscape as imbued with an essential wildness that could be heedlessly destroyed, embodies physis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But even men far tougher and more attuned to the wilderness than Thoreau were sobered by its strange and palpable menace. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He ate and ate and ate, and when he was done he said, “May I call you Thoreau?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning pages, feeling the paper, I wonder if any of the trees from Thoreau’s forest are still alive and wonder what Thoreau would think today if he could visit my small pond and eucalyptus grove. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “The only thing Thoreau and I have in common is that we’re both hungry,” he says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, you’re good at memorization, but do you have an opinion? Is there any way to pass that invisible boundary besides dropping out like Thoreau did?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Thoreau, I have led a varied life—dishwasher, sax player, teacher. To me it has been an interesting life. Just now it seems very dull.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, Thoreau, this could only be a rumor. Just because it is in print, doesn’t mean it’s true. Before you get excited, sit still and listen.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She just feels so alone, like she’s lived her whole life in “quiet desperation” as Thoreau would say, instead of sucking the marrow out of life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “You know, Thoreau, I could scarcely drag myself away from the newspapers to come up here. You make a marvelous story.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Walden by Henry David Thoreau, which is my brother’s girlfriend’s favorite book, so I was very excited to read it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I brought you some more sugar; we’ll try next year. Merry Christmas, Thoreau!” he shouted, and looked about the room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if, unlike Thoreau, two hundred years from now I might still be able to visit my pond and forest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z At his father’s suggestion, he’d been reading Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience,” and about the life of Gandhi, the leader of India’s nonviolent independence movement. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Ethan, I truly appreciate the effort, but I can recite Thoreau all day long and still be afraid.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Chris’s seemingly anomalous political positions were perhaps best summed up by Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to wish that I could live alone in a cabin by myself, like Henry David Thoreau, but I’d probably start to get restless after a few days. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gradually, his company branched out into pamphlets and broadsides — reprints of Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden,” for example, and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” — and from there into books. Looking Back on 50 Years of Making Beautiful Books 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The movie is an unrelievedly depressing illustration of Henry David Thoreau’s observation that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z For Thoreau, Nature was a communicating consciousness, and he wanted to make himself available to it, antennas raised. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Not all those in that audience reacted well to Cage’s reading of Thoreau’s journals; yet despite their insults and shouts, he carried on — just as the dancers do in Mr. Preljocaj’s hypnotic investigation of form. Angelin Preljocaj’s Meditations on Movement 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It starts off with a New Year’s Day dinner party that included Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott’s father, and takes the story from there. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I began reading Emerson and Thoreau and the American Transcendentalists shortly afterward. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As a child, he sometimes listened in as his father conversed with Emerson, Thoreau and Melville. ‘Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son,’ by Gary Scharnhorst In 1845, a shy young man named Henry David Thoreau “went to the woods to live deliberately.” Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Instead, Frost found the spirit of Thoreau alive in his beloved Green Mountains of Vermont. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But this notion that isolation from society is the truest way for artists to “suck out all the marrow of life,” as Thoreau somewhat grossly put it, seems painfully anachronistic. Perspective | Artists are struggling to find inspiration in isolation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z His take on Thoreau can join those ranks. John Mulaney needs to play all of history's weird men 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Thoreau lived at Walden for two years on borrowed land, financially supported by friends, with his mother cooking and doing laundry for him. Adventuring while female: why the relationship women have with nature matters 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau, born 200 years ago next July, is widely regarded as America’s first environmental guru. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau, the essayist and poet whose book "Walden" still resonates with fans of nature and the environment in the modern era, was born 200 years ago Wednesday. Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau called Brown “the most American of us all,” which partly explains his iconic appeal: zealotry, self-reliance, lone crusading — from the Puritans on down, this is true Americana. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: James McBride’s ‘Good Lord Bird’ 2013-08-19T15:38:34Z By this point, any physical trace of Thoreau was long gone and there was nothing to signal the site’s significance. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z For him, that means a life filled with Thoreau. At Green-Wood Cemetery, Dancers Celebrate Life 2011-10-20T20:25:04Z In the United States, it was philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau who first engaged with the philosophy of yoga in the 1830s. Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “Emerson, Thoreau, and William James all made lasting contributions to modern life, and their personal triumphs over disaster and loss and defeat are further contributions,” Richardson wrote in the preface. Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman are said to be among his champions. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z He grew enamored with Thoreau in high school and one weekend sophomore year he took the train to Boston. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Resist “the heavy influences” — Flaubert, Marx, etc., or what Bellow, citing Thoreau, calls “the savage strength of the many.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax and spent a night in jail because he believed the tax funded the state-sponsored violence of slavery and the mistreatment of Mexicans and Native Americans. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The American naturalist Henry David Thoreau noted the trade in the winter of 1846. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z To sum up, in Thoreau style, if you are generally sick of spending your life digging your own grave and watching everyone around you do likewise, going off-grid is calling. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “The Transcendental writers including Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne were very important to her view of literature,” Ms. Lee said. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z I have been reading Thoreau and reading about him for 40 years; I’ve written a book about him myself. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z When I left for the woods, friends compared me to Thoreau. Two years in the woods: No computer, no television, no cellphone — but I was no Thoreau 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z In “Walden,” Thoreau writes of a starving, exhausted man lost in the woods whose loneliness is relieved by “grotesque visions” that he takes to be real. | 'Letters From the Big Man': ?Letters From the Big Man? Stars Lily Rabe - Review 2011-11-10T21:57:13Z Their starting point was apparently Henry David Thoreau's sonorous words "Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves" but their show is far less portentous. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z And toward the end of the final movement, “Thoreau,” Tom Ottar Andreassen played the distant flute melody that lends an ethereal touch to this dreamy passage. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z There Is a Season is a lyrical masterpiece to be treasured by all recovering alcoholics, avid gardeners and lovers of Annie Dillard and Thoreau. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z From Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost to crooner James Taylor and funky Earth, Wind & Fire, generations of American artists have been inspired by the vivid season. Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives 2010-10-26T22:00:00Z I think Thoreau was one of the great masters of the art of simple living. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z But when I first fell in love with any of Cunningham’s nature studies, over 30 years ago, I had never heard of Zen or Thoreau. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z If that man were also wielding phrases like “dance of adjustment,” I suspect that Thoreau would have also carried along a sharp stick, just in case. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Born 200 years ago today, Thoreau, like his fellow Transcendentalists, propounded the philosophy of living “deliberately,” by which they meant weighing the moral consequences of one’s actions. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Thoreau sets “Walden’s” self-reliant tone in the original more or less immediately with his epigraph — a quote from his own book. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z David Brower of the Sierra Club published a book titled “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World” with excerpts from Thoreau’s nature writings accompanied by the landscape photography of Eliot Porter. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z More important, the book would be a memorial to his beloved brother whose death from tetanus at 27 — he had nicked himself while shaving — shadowed Thoreau’s life. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "The Poet's Hour" takes a passage from Thoreau as its spark, and features concertmaster Maria Larionoff in a solo role, shimmering with quiet, pastoral beauty. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z As Thoreau wrote, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” John Mulaney needs to play all of history's weird men 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z His compositions included a symphony inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, an opera set in Colonial America and a piano concerto incorporating bird calls. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z Often borrowing from his literary hero’s dictum, Muir harnessed Thoreau’s statement to promote his drive to save California wilderness from ruin. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Thoreau wasn’t more evolved or more in touch with his solitude; he was likely biologically predisposed to find comfort in it. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Because Thoreau insisted on the preservation of wildness, we have millions of acres of public lands to explore — and the sanctity of Cape Cod and Katahdin to defend from profiteers and bandits. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In his diary Alcott writes: “Mrs. Adams suggests that visitors to Walden shall bring a small stone for Thoreau’s monument and she begins the pile by laying stones on the site of his hermitage.” Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Top tip Thoreau was a great believer in taking long, slow, daily walks. Top 10 national and state parks in New England, USA 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z As in several later episodes, the Thoreau excursion feels less like independent mindedness than failed rebellion. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z I usually drive to Walden, but cars — loud, efficient, mechanical — aren’t meant for the spiritual pilgrimage Dann, a historian and naturalist, intends to initiate with this transcendental biography of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The new biography “Henry David Thoreau: A Life” is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z “I’d remind him,” Marshall says in the play, “Thoreau wrote ‘Civil Disobedience’ in jail.” | 'Thurgood': Marshall v. Bias: A Life Revealed in Anecdotes 2011-02-23T23:22:27Z The last time our country rolled out the red carpet for Thoreau was in 1962, the year “Silent Spring” was published and the 100th anniversary of his death. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Thoreau’s journal, a vast compendium of almost daily reflection that includes more than 2 million words, breaks off for six weeks during this unspeakable period of loss. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z In 1962, he published the presciently titled In Wildness is the Preservation of the World, which was structured formally around the seasons and punctuated by quotes from Thoreau. Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review 2013-02-03T09:00:03Z For this brief time I am Muir, Powell, Thoreau, Roosevelt, Carson and the millions of others for whom nature served as first-line therapy. In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The next year, the storm clouds of self-reliance forming again, Thoreau deigned to pay only because, if he didn’t, his friends would. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But our pilgrimages to honor Thoreau shouldn’t be confined to wood-fringed Concord. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z This is mysticism of a peculiarly American sort, the same pantheistic ecstasy of Whitman and Thoreau. Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z At one point, Bill invokes Henry David Thoreau: “Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Some Ties That Bind 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z The book is perhaps most surprising on the subject of Thoreau, for whom Darwin’s writings would prove influential. New in Paperback: ‘The Book That Changed America,’ ‘Manhattan Beach’ 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Thoreau would pick up his pen to skewer them mercilessly, and — practicing what he preached in his essay “Civil Disobedience” — would probably take to the streets in protest. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Thoreau had an amazing eye for both the detail of the natural world and the foibles of his fellow New Englanders. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z But Bennett’s narrator shares none of Thoreau’s psychologically industrious self-reliance. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Thoreau understood that we don’t need to waste our time by turning shopping into our favourite leisure activity, or spending three hours a day watching television. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z The fact that people who separate themselves and live alone – think of Henry David Thoreau inWalden – is so remarkable indicates how rare it is. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z Thoreau left Walden in 1847 to take a job as a caretaker in the household of his off-and-on friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, who owned the land on which Thoreau had built his cabin. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z She is in love with her Thoreau, who scribbles poems in a cabin by a lake, but their courtship is complicated by her father and their families’ difference in status. Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The subject is redneck types of various persuasions, who torment a young fan of Thoreau’s “Walden” when he tries to get back to basics at an Oregon apple farm. SIFF 2013, week 2: 11 movies to see 2013-05-23T18:03:35Z Thoreau’s many critics, both in 1854 and today, typically attack the man rather than his book — and there’s no question Thoreau was peculiar and ornery enough on occasion to supply his detractors with ammunition. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Raised on the Gospels and the metaphysical aphorisms of Mary Baker Eddy, I regarded Thoreau’s book as a loamy version of “Science and Health.” Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The true largess of Thoreau, then, can perhaps best be discovered by experiencing one of the outdoor temples that his “in wildness” declaration helped protect. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Later, she headed to the groundbreaking of an education center at a wildlife refuge where she channeled her inner Henry David Thoreau to talk about the meaning of life. Michele Bachmann, queen of the tea party, searches for what’s next He said this text, adapted from Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” should be delivered in “an optimistic spirit.” Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z As Henry David Thoreau wrote in Night and Moonlight: “Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.” Into the night: why walking in the dark is good for the soul 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Which is unfair, considering all the books and movies dedicated to the often-tedious excursions of solitary men, from Henry David Thoreau to Jack Kerouac to Christopher McCandless. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z For a while, they worked on one based on the Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee play “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.” In ‘Something Rotten!,’ if Music Be the Food of Farce, Play On 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Thoreau’s Concord, Kerouac insisted after visiting Walden, was best experienced in “blue aquamarine in October red sereness.” Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z When asked about his intellectual influences, he answers, “Joseph Campbell, ‘Star Wars,’ Thoreau, and Ayn Rand.” Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” Reviewed 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I think Kerouac has links with Whitman and Thoreau and Robert Lowell: he opens up the soul of America. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z For someone generally associated with serenity, Henry David Thoreau can get people riled up. Celebrating Two Centuries of Thoreau 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This year marks the 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau, the transcendentalist author of “Walden.” WATCH: Thoreau’s classic work “Walden” gets the video game treatment — yes, you heard that right 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z On to Henry David Thoreau and artist George Catlin, who dreamed of national parks in the abstract. Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Thoreau said that “you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” The Startlingly Beautiful Films of Nathaniel Dorsky 2012-04-13T17:02:18Z Thoreau turned the evening into an essay on civil disobedience. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Thoreau laid the groundwork for a field that would come to be known as ecology. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z He makes her read from Walden, the self-reliance manual by the 19th century transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Sundance film festival 2013: Upstream Color – first look review 2013-01-23T12:05:00Z He recalled a youth full of outdoor adventures, enriched by prototypical “boys’ books” like Joseph Altsheler’s “The Young Trailers” series and, later, by authors like Thoreau and Henry Beston. The Site of an Environmentalist’s Deadly Act of Protest 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Thoreau hoped to jolt his readers into the realization that they were living a hand-to-mouth existence, driven to this not by necessity but by its evil twin, luxury. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate,” declared Henry David Thoreau. Why undecided voters are so hopeless 2014-02-13T13:30:00Z Others were disgusted — as only young people can be — that Thoreau misrepresented himself and his time in the cabin. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Well, again … Thoreau … a man with nothing to do finding something to do. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Remember Henry David Thoreau's line about how the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation? Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z Dickinson and Thoreau were contemporaries and lived only 75 miles apart, but there is no evidence that they ever met. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Midway through, though, the quiet droned on and on, and I shelved Thoreau. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z In summoning the prophetic Thoreau, “Expect Great Things” often reads like the musings of a semi-convincing fortuneteller. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z This new life of Thoreau, in time for his 200th birthday, paints a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z There's good reason that Massachusetts' Walden Woods provided inspiration for Henry David Thoreau to write his famous book on nature and self-reliance. Inspirational Travel Destinations 2010-12-09T17:15:00Z He wanted to study Thoreau, Melville and Whitman and “what is it to be an American – that’s really the subtext of all those books”. Michael Pollan: ‘I’m uncomfortable with the foodie label’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z There’s an extended and winning juxtaposition, in “The Mars Room,” of the writing of two men who sought escape from society’s constraints: Henry David Thoreau and Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Modernity’s vision of nature is narrow and devoid of magic, which in turn, according to Dann, constricts our understanding of its guardian, Thoreau. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Far from hiding out in the woods, Thoreau was passionately involved in these issues. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z It centers on three major American thinkers he previously wrote books about: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and William James. Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z And Dann merely glosses the writings that Thoreau himself published in the 44 years of his life: “Walden,” “Civil Disobedience,” “Walking” — the keystone texts of his corpus — receive only a passing treatment. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Thoreau had first hiked the Outer Cape’s shoreline in 1849 and began composing reflections for public lectures. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Discussing the renunciatory philosophy of the Stoics and Henry David Thoreau, he discerns “a strategy of avoidance, especially in moments when society feels chaotic or catastrophic.” ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, if “Dickinson” concocts an interesting encounter between them, and if it turns some viewers into readers of Dickinson and Thoreau, then perhaps it’s worth bending the truth. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Sonata, with its four movements portraying the New England transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau. CD review: ‘Concord’ Sonata by pianist Alexei Lubimov 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Since the coronavirus quarantine began in the United States last month, tens of millions of us have begun something like Thoreau’s retreat, but with a better Internet connection. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau often walked and swam here in the mid-19th century, calling the autumn landscape “so beautifully painted … It was like the richest rug imaginable.” Water, Sand and Plenty of Elbow Room on 8 Wild, Protected Coastlines 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z These include Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who mailed Gandhi a treatise on civil disobedience by the American author Henry David Thoreau. Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z America experienced a naturalist revival in the late 1800s, a belated enlightenment inspired by the likes of Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Organized by season, “A Year at Clove Brook Farm” takes a basic calendar format and packs it with recipes, lists, sources, photographs, folksy platitudes, D.I.Y. tips and quotations from Shakespeare and Thoreau. Is He the Next Martha Stewart? ‘Not So Fast,’ Says Martha. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z First, of course, was the force that Thoreau was referring to when he said that a writer is someone with nothing to do who finds something to do. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z For an enduring figure in the American canon, Henry David Thoreau is needier than you might think. ‘Zero Cost House’ Review: Could Thoreau Save Us Now? 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z The Cape is more populous now than when Henry tramped the beaches and pinewoods, but much of it — especially the dunes that Thoreau described — retains its natural beauty. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z When Brown was hanged, Thoreau delivered a furious public speech in Concord, standing under an upside-down United States flag. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z “Walden” will probably never go out of print again, and the first edition, the one Thoreau struggled to sell for a dollar, fetches thousands at auction today. Why Does Thoreau Live On? A Few Famous Writers Offer Answers. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z While Berryman loads her play with vivid details and plenty of plot mechanics, it’s Thoreau’s question of how to live and what constitutes a good life that animates her. ‘Walden’ Review: Getting Away From It All 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z He finds one and hunkers down, intending like Thoreau to live deliberately. Review: ‘The Point of Vanishing,’ Howard Axelrod’s Memoir About Solitude 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s as if Sirk doubles Thoreau on himself, showing American philosophy not as an academic discipline but as the residue of a way of life, a trace of vital and ongoing experience. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z They were married at Thoreau’s Cabin, an Airbnb deep in the Uncompahgre Wilderness, about 16 miles up a rugged dirt road from Lake City. Chasing Their Fears and Finding Each Other 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Almost all of the great philosophers — Socrates, Aristotle, the Stoics, Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau — were walkers whose ideas germinated only in motion. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Among the American canon, he loves Herman Melville and Henry Thoreau, has trouble with Nathaniel Hawthorne and struggles to understand Walt Whitman. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z White found a humor in Thoreau that Thoreau didn’t quite see in himself. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Mexico lost half its territory and many lives, but the voices of Thoreau and Lincoln are here to sound an alarm and to hope. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z She calls Henry David Thoreau’s prose “as invigorating as a salt sea-wind” and joins a “girls’ Mark Twain reading club,” the Huckleberry Finners. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Thoreau needed nature as he did oxygen itself; in a book he was preparing for publication as he succumbed to tuberculosis, he wrote, “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Kloppenberg compiled a long list of people who he said helped shape Mr. Obama’s thinking and writing, including Weber and Nietzsche, Thoreau and Emerson, Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison. Study of Obama Finds a Pragmatic Intellectual 2010-10-27T17:44:00Z Your brain may feast on ethical sourcing, but your palate cares about only one thing: Is the food tasty at this farmhouse-meets-warehouse-meets-boathouse space with views of Lake Thoreau? Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The renowned photographer discusses her new book, "Pilgrimage," photographs of places she explored with no particular agenda: Niagara Falls, Emily Dickinson's home, Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. 14 Seattle entertainment picks for Dec. 11-17 2011-12-09T19:02:30Z “To me, it seems that much of what Henry David Thoreau wrote more than a century ago was less timely in his day than it is on ours,” Brower offered in the introduction. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z On July 4, 1845, just shy of his 28th birthday, Thoreau moved in, opening his journal with the line, “Yesterday I came here to live.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z On April 23, 1851, Henry David Thoreau spoke at the Concord Lyceum about the interrelationship of God, man and nature. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Thoreau was trying to poorly imitate a lifestyle that the native Americans had mastered long before him. The Movement to Define Native American Cuisine 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls,” Thoreau writes in a chapter called “Solitude.” Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Still, say those like Mr. Wilkinson, Outer Cape vacationers reliably can find the remove Thoreau meant when he wrote that standing on shores there, you could put all of America behind you. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z For one thing, Walden Pond in Massachusetts, the site of his retreat, wasn’t the middle of nowhere: Thoreau strolled back to town twice weekly, where his mother did his laundry and gave him snacks. Why cabin fantasies shut out reality 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z You wouldn’t know it from “Walden,” but Thoreau wasn’t just observing toadstools and listening to whippoorwills during those two years by the pond. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “After Thoreau” is a copy of one of the property surveys by which Henry David Thoreau supported himself after his formative stay in his cabin on Walden Pond. Last Chance: Works by James Benning and Others at Artists Space 2014-02-21T23:09:28Z Thoreau never understood, and could never have guessed, how popular he would become. Why Does Thoreau Live On? A Few Famous Writers Offer Answers. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Of course, when regarded as a 20-something prig squatting rent-free on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s land, Thoreau sounds like the dude you’d least like to be quarantined with. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He begins with an axiomatic assumption: that the self isn’t just “a parcel of vain strivings,” as Thoreau once wrote, but essentially a fiction. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z This July 12 will be Thoreau’s 200th birthday. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Thoreau didn’t need to traverse the globe to enjoy “the tonic of wildness.” A travel writer contemplates a less mobile future 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau once heaved a big stone against the trunk of a chestnut tree to bring down a shower of nuts. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Throughout history, from Genesis to Thoreau, the wilderness has “come to signify the environment in which to find and draw close to God”, Roderick Nash wrote in his classic work, Wilderness and the American Mind. How going camping saved my sanity – and made me a better father 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Just as Muir’s book “Our National Parks” had helped save the High Sierras of California, “Cape Cod” served as an important catalyst for protecting what Thoreau called “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts.” Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Emerson and Thoreau both hiked it and wrote about it. 'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties 2011-03-09T01:46:08Z “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours,” Thoreau writes in “Walden.” Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Walls is too well versed in Thoreau’s life to accept his own often contradictory pronouncements or his semi-fictional first-person narrator as necessarily factual. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Interpreting Thoreau's nature sketches rather than normal notations, the musicians in "Renga" have more freedom than they know what to do with. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z “Maybe it is not too late to celebrate her,” Lopate writes, “as one of the pioneering American nature writers and environmentalists,” alongside Thoreau and company. ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In a whisper, Thoreau replied: “This is a beautiful world, but soon I shall see one that is fairer. I have so loved nature.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z During most of his life Henry David Thoreau was, by conventional standards of success, a failure. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Thoreau wouldn’t like it, since the steam trains of the Ffestiniog line do jog past occasionally, but when I stayed there that only seemed to accentuate the isolation. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z In a sudden swell of amnesia, I would discover that I couldn’t spell “Thoreau” — or “Henry” or even “David.” Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Thoreau once asked, “What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?” Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The book would be Thoreau’s first attempt at the blend of field research, philosophy and autobiography that would become his signature mode. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z For Thoreau, revolution began at home, one person at a time. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z An odd monument it was: a loose pile of stones set on the site of the one-room cabin Thoreau built at Walden Pond. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Celebrating authenticity and adventure, they tucked battered copies of Kerouac and Thoreau into rucksacks, influences that resonate through American culture to this day. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Now the historian focuses on Concord during the 1820s, when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and others developed social theories and artistic visions during a period of intellectual and economic growth. 10 books to read in November 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Admired by some, loathed by others, the Botswana Brawler possesses a visionary separatism that places him at the margins of American society yet links him with figures like Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau. Books of The Times: ?The Mormon People,? Matthew Bowman?s Timely Church History ? Review 2012-01-24T18:40:40Z "We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are." Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z When asked by an aunt if he had made peace with God, Thoreau replied, “I did not know we had ever quarreled.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It was a fundraiser for the Walden Woods Project in nearby Lincoln, Mass. All of us were serious admirers of Henry David Thoreau. Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z At that any moment, Michael Tilson Thomas cued members of his orchestra to pour liquidly indeterminate sounds suggested by drawings from Thoreau's journals that make up the score to Cage's "Renga." San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Emerson urged Thoreau to seek solitude and keep a journal, and so the young man did, eventually writing more than two million words in his diaries, books, reports and articles. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Michael Sims, whose books include “The Adventures of Henry Thoreau,” is writing a book about the young Frederick Douglass. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Filled with tremulous beauty, the film is — as Thoreau wrote of his “Journal” — a record of joy and ecstasy. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Thoreau didn’t overdo his retreat into nature: he kept up the dinner parties with philosophical friends and restricted himself to a couple of years, more or less, out in the countryside. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Witnessing the widespread destruction of nature as America’s industrial economy boomed, Thoreau lamented, “Trade curses everything it handles.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z At its loftiest, their profound seclusion suggests that they’re spiritual and philosophical heirs to an isolationist like Henry Thoreau; at worst, it suggests fanaticism, cultishness, selfishness. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The sentiment became popularized when The Atlantic published Thoreau’s essay “Walking” in May 1862, with the line as the centerpiece, a month after his death. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The point is to use Thoreau as a spiritual guide to the unseen. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Thoreau, his message was autonomy for the individual and making up your mind. Book Talk: Black music, white culture and a legendary U.S. highway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Two Years at Sea” may be a portrait of a hermit or a modern-age gloss on Thoreau’s “Walden,” but the filmmaker doesn’t say on screen. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z Inside, a hexagonal dome is inscribed with the names of six men Wright admired, including Thoreau, Emerson and his uncle, a Unitarian preacher. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Auden, as well as less-celebrated characters, such as the homeless friend he celebrates as “an utterly independent human being, a sort of modern, urban Thoreau.” The beautiful mind of Oliver Sacks: How his knack for storytelling helped unlock the mysteries of the brain 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z The New York Times critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in his review, threw in a comparison to Thoreau. Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Picture Thoreau having left for Walden with a bunch of bad dudes hot on his heels. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Solitude is part of Dickinson’s birthright — the taste for it links her to Henry David Thoreau, another odd duck plying the waters of Massachusetts — but so are social and familial ties. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Doyle said he thinks officials found his Bigfoot stunt - and the publicity it generated - tacky for a mountain revered by literary giants Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. 'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties 2011-03-09T01:46:08Z Thoreau said he couldn’t preserve his health and spirits unless he spent four hours a day “sauntering.” Paul Theroux?s Travel Miscellany 2011-06-03T16:52:27Z Thoreau’s zealous rejection of conventionality is especially designed for young misfits who hear a different drummer. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z As Thoreau wrote, hunting may represent an early stage in human development. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Before Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, he whispered four words to his sister that have always puzzled me, at least until now — “Now comes good sailing.” Why Does Thoreau Live On? A Few Famous Writers Offer Answers. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Emerson’s fellow Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, prefigured today’s hiker-hunter cultural split. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But Thoreau’s experiment, immortalized in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” became the world’s most famous act of social distancing. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Thoreau might have siphoned insight from his surroundings; Bennett’s narrator osmoses into hers completely. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Asked once why he was so eternally curious about things, Thoreau responded, “What else is there in life?” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Austin stands for confined, suburban man who yearns, more in Thoreau than in anger, to return to nature. Review 2010-05-19T00:01:00Z “Tell me of Poe, Oscar Wilde and Thoreau,” sang Walker. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z “He who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off,” Thoreau noted in “Walden.” A Kindred Spirit to Share the Road 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z For many writers, Maine means a simpler, sparer kind of existence, a place to practice “deliberate living,” like Thoreau’s cabin but with more lobster. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Michael Sims’s most recent book is “The Adventures of Henry Thoreau.” ‘The Comedians’: An antic history of the people who make us laugh 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Young Jack Kennedy, influenced by his mother, adopted Thoreau’s elevated notion of Cape Cod as being where “a man can stand” and “put all of America behind him” as his own. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Her guide was the utopian thinker Bronson Alcott, one of Thoreau’s oldest friends. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s called “Walden,” and it’s a single-player game that depicts going into the woods to live alone à la Thoreau; at its heart is the idea of solitude and deliberate living. In defense of Solitaire, the “perfect game”: Mindfulness, video games and the importance of downtime 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Now in his late 70s, he came here from Iran in 1960 and went on to built sculptural tributes to several of this country’s canonical secular saints — Henry David Thoreau, Frank O’Hara, Walt Whitman. A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Thoreau died at 44 in 1862 of complications from tuberculosis, which he lived with for much of his life. Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Thoreau apparently couldn’t accept that relationships might be among life’s essentials. Why cabin fantasies shut out reality 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Indeed, Walls writes, Thoreau was so much in the public eye at Walden that his retreat there “would forever remain an iconic work of performance art.” On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Color, for Albers, was a psychological and spiritual phenomenon as much as an optical one, a mood-changer and a projection device, the way the North American sky was for the Yankee yogi Henry David Thoreau. Josef Albers’s Science and Soul of Seeing 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z About 20 miles south of Plymouth, across the Sagamore Bridge, is Cape Cod, “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” as Thoreau wrote in his book of hikes, “Cape Cod.” Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Two dozen American statesmen and author-men – Lincoln, Thoreau, Poe, and more — are lionized in smaller print on the front. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z In a 1959 New York Times article titled “Walking in Thoreau’s Footsteps on Cape Cod,” Caroline Bates enthusiastically embraced the national seashore effort. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z When he was a boy, his father had read him Thoreau’s “Walden,” and its pastoral message resonated with the landscape of his childhood. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “Pond Way,” the last of Cunningham’s many idylls, is in the Transcendentalist tradition of Emerson and Thoreau. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Through a series of dialogues, Fuller banters with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, among others, and the subject is romance as much as philosophy and personal freedom. Plays with divergent tones work well at Taffety Punk But considering “Walden” in the context of Thoreau’s life makes a richer and far more sympathetic book than its collection of metaphysical aphorisms would suggest. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The only other thing Thoreau added was a chimney before winter set in. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In subsequent sessions with Jackson, we discussed a range of writers and theorists, from Henry David Thoreau to Northrop Frye. My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Thoreau admonished himself and his readers, a sentiment Maushart echoes throughout the book. What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months? 2011-01-18T17:01:22Z Like Thoreau, this Greek contrarian kept his life as simple as possible: After seeing a boy drink with his hands, Diogenes threw away his cup. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z As a sometimes resident of Emerson’s house, Thoreau had often played with the little boy and made him wooden toys. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z During Thoreau’s life, American chestnuts covered a huge swath of the Eastern United States. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A year before returning to civilized life on Sept. 6, 1847, the 29-year-old Thoreau was imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes on moral grounds. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z A committed abolitionist, Thoreau wrote his essay “Civil Disobedience” as a criticism of the American government and slavery, and urged his readers to resist by not paying taxes. Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z When Thoreau encounters a rare pinxter flower in 1853, it would be enough to suggest that he was attuned to the almost nonexistent. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Over the next few minutes, Thoreau deftly crushes Emily’s spirit by displaying his callousness and hypocrisy, before finally spitting out the final line: “Never meet your heroes.” John Mulaney needs to play all of history's weird men 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Thoreau passed within 30 miles of East Grand Lake on two of his three expeditions to Maine. On a Canoe Trip Along the U.S.-Canada Border, Solitude and Shooting Stars 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “The adventurer in search of wild America,” she wrote, “visits this coast for the same reason that Thoreau did.” Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “Expect Great Things” is eccentric, strange, even far-fetched, but nonetheless admirable — a bit like Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z These pieces were the start of a body of work that would make Thoreau a pioneer in what today is called nature writing. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z And they were, for Thoreau, deeply and personally sacred. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The sonata’s four teeming, volatile movements are musical portraits of towering figures in American transcendentalism: Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and Thoreau. Music Review: Fill-In Delivers a Muscular Pairing of Ives and Bach?s ?Goldberg? Variations 2011-03-28T22:17:36Z He’s as familiar with Thoreau and Emerson as he is with Walter Benjamin, the author of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” and the dystopian science-fiction writer J. G. Ballard. Books of The Times: ‘Tubes,’ by Andrew Blum, Explores Physical Reality of the Web 2012-06-19T14:31:24Z Thoreau continued to write and lecture after he left Walden Pond. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In 1845, Henry David Thoreau, a privileged young man from Massachusetts with time on his hands, decided that the sheer speed and bustle of modern life was too much. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Decades later, both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. credited Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” with helping inspire their own nonviolent activism. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z And there's a lot of help to be found in the 1800s, from the appreciation of wildness in Henry David Thoreau's famous "Walden," to the rise of ecology, the science of interdependence. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Hers was a manner of uncomplaining integrity, the everyday “quiet desperation” Thoreau lamented. Richard Ford’s new memoir, ‘Between Them: Remembering My Parents’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Their goals reflected Thoreau’s determination “to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.” Books of The Times: Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light 2011-04-06T21:15:45Z Most Americans know Thoreau from reading “Walden,” with its simple assertion, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z And we can learn a lot from what Thoreau created from it: constructive solitude. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z A latter-day Thoreau with a dash of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, he celebrated simple pleasures and ordinary people. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He read Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” and it was a vital early influence. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The day before his death, Thoreau was visited by an old friend, who mentioned that he’d heard robins singing on his way there. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Today, a replica of Thoreau’s cabin sits in the state reserve – the original, occupied by Thoreau in 1865-66, is long gone. Top 10 national and state parks in New England, USA 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z While Thoreau repeatedly announces his intention to solidify a deliberately staked position in the world, the narrator of “Pond” sets about dissolving. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Thoreau was always sceptical of what people called “civilisation” – accumulating material goods, moving into a bigger house. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z “It’s like listening to Thoreau and Emerson bicker about the state of mankind,” Hawke said. Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z In the late 1970s and early ’80s Joel Sternfeld crisscrossed the country, from Beverly Hills, Calif., to Aroostook County, Me., capturing Thoreau’s lives of quiet desperation whipsawed by the American dream in transition. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z Extolling Brown's stand for human dignity in the face of unjust edict, Henry David Thoreau called him "the most American of us all." 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z Henry David Thoreau, James Agee, Henry Miller and Norman Mailer were all nonpareil navel-gazers who found their perfect subject in themselves and couldn’t see the world any other way. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z On a foundation of rigorous scholarship, Walls, a professor of English at Notre Dame, resurrects Thoreau’s life with a novelist’s sympathy and pacing. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z “Pond” can be seen as a photonegative of “Walden,” in which Henry David Thoreau similarly spends most of his time alone near a small body of water. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z And this makes no mention of the activist, the naturalist, the moral philosopher, the self-exile and the utopian-community-of-one — that is, the Thoreau we care most about now. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In his mid-20s, Thoreau — who worked periodically as a surveyor — enjoyed limited success publishing articles, some of them based on his travels in Maine and Massachusetts. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In her charmingly slight, bittersweet video “One-Week Walden,” the winsome Ms. Sullivan narrates her attempt to emulate Thoreau with a childlike voice. Art in Review: JENNIFER SULLIVAN: ?One-Week Walden? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z There they meet Thoreau’s mom, laundry basket in hand, who offers to lead them to her son’s cabin; she has to collect his dirty trousers anyway. John Mulaney needs to play all of history's weird men 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z On Dann’s reading, Thoreau was consistently drawn to such elemental forces, present but forever inaccessible, leading him to experience, rather than reduce, the mysteries of nature. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Sims is the author, most recently, of “The Adventures of Henry Thoreau.” A memoir of growing up on the farm that advised the White House’s Kitchen Garden She wrote about architecture as prolifically and proficiently as Thoreau wrote about nature. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Forty-five years later, he shines more light on Concord, Mass., this time focusing in large part on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In 1860, in the brief passage of time between Brown's raid and the shots fired at Fort Sumter, Thoreau wrote: "They all called him crazy then; who calls him crazy now?" 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z It was Thoreau who said, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The American rural experience, as told by Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, is all about becoming immersed in largely unpopulated, natural places. West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Since Thoreau is so well known for the small cabin he built alongside Walden Pond, one might imagine he preferred to view nature from inside a cozy shelter. These Authors Follow in the Footsteps of Earlier Travelers, Literally 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Humboldt’s book “Cosmos” was an international phenomenon, and an inspiration not just to Frederic Church and the artists of the Hudson River School, but to scientists, poets and writers including Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The last in the family to own it was Myron Benton, a poet and writer whose pals include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau, all of whom visited regularly. The Hotel Historian Is at Your Service 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s as if Henry David Thoreau had lived into the age of pickup trucks, survivalists and fentanyl. Review | Escapist reads: New and upcoming mysteries and thrillers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z As I grew older, though, I began to understand that Thoreau’s claim that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” was not social criticism but personal confession. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z This week marks Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, a bicentennial that emphasizes just how briefly the writer lived. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z A hip-hop star, played by the real-life rapper Freddie Gibbs, has gone into the woods, like Henry David Thoreau, to live deliberately. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Slaves seeking freedom, as well as abolitionists and people of principle—Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau—flee north to Canada, where Susan B. Anthony leads a successful drive for women’s suffrage. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Thoreau was preoccupied with natural rhythms: day and night, summer and winter, seed and harvest. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Science and religion converged in American Pre-Raphaelitism, as they did in Hudson River School painting and in the writings of Thoreau and Emerson. Art Review: William Trost Richards at National Academy Museum 2013-08-15T20:21:06Z As an elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber won his share of sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau. Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prison 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau took a nice, rainy 30-mile walk on a Cape Cod beach in 1849 and chronicled his experience in “Walking,” an essay published in the Atlantic right after his death in 1862. Review | A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Later, Henry David Thoreau wrote of the benefits of radical independence. Held down by our bootstraps: The myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z One day, when actor Richard Chamberlain and Danny were seated across from each other in a Los Angeles diner, Chamberlain heard the young boy precociously quote philosopher Henry David Thoreau. After childhood fame — and decades of infamy — Danny Bonaduce finds success and sobriety in Seattle 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “It was believed that the truck may have been driven toward Thoreau, New Mexico, and may have proceeded in the direction of Albuquerque, New Mexico,” according to the F.B.I. New Mexico Man Charged in Case of Missing Navajo Nation Woman 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z We know instinctively that moving around makes us feel good; "an early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day," wrote Henry David Thoreau. Is working out always better for depression than therapy and medication? Not so fast, experts say 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z For Emerson, Thoreau and James, Richardson tells us, it was as if their losses had marked their souls, altering their mind-sets and impelling them forward with different perspectives, and sometimes different directions, than before. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau lived alone for two years in a tiny shack he built overlooking Walden Pond. Opinion | Want to be happy? Then don’t be a lawyer. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In winter, the pond looks pristine, much the way it might have appeared to Henry David Thoreau when he walked the Cape in 1849. A Stinky Stew on Cape Cod: Human Waste and Warming Water 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of "Walden", was a keen observer of seasonal change. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Unlike Thoreau, I didn’t build it with my own two hands. Opinion | Put your masks back on, please 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z This new perspective embraced what Thoreau perceived as the balance achieved by nature’s alternating cycles of autumnal decay and spring renewal. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The statement may seem contradictory, but for Thoreau it is a direct statement in that someone who allows himself to be imprisoned will find freedom by distancing himself from all others to prove his point. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Members of Brook Farm never totaled more than one hundred, but it won renown largely because of the luminaries, such as Emerson and Thoreau, whose names were attached to it. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Burroughs asserted that Thoreau's "observations are frequently at fault, or wholly wide of the mark." How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In short, she invented her version of “stream of consciousness” narration after reading Thoreau’s experiments in nighttime real-time writing! Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’ 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z There was no treatment yet for this disease, either, and like Thoreau’s brother, young Waldo died within days. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Jones repeats “in daily life” to give a rhythm to his own prose and to emphasize the importance to Thoreau of daily activities that are simple and meaningful. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Among those attracted to Emerson’s ideas was his friend Henry David Thoreau, whom he encouraged to write about his own ideas. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He questioned whether Thoreau knew basic facts, such as that hickory trees grew in Concord, Mass., and that pine trees had seeds. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Going further, Henry David Thoreau served a night in jail instead of drilling with his town militia, and defended the protest in what has become a classic essay, “Civil Disobedience.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Emerson, also serving as Thoreau’s mentor, commissioned an article for the magazine he edited. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Jones uses the poetic language of high rhetoric directly from Thoreau. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Thoreau placed a special emphasis on the role of nature as a gateway to the transcendentalist goal of greater individualism. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When we assessed the rigor, accuracy and utility of Thoreau's natural history observations, we found that he was indeed a good naturalist. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau practiced his friend Emerson’s individualist convictions by his simple manner of living, his travels in the American wilderness, and his moving descriptions of natural beauty. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z That piece, appearing six months after his brother’s death, would become Thoreau’s first mature work, Richardson notes. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau was free to occupy his time in any way that pleased him, which for him meant mostly writing and tending his bean patch. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In 1848, Thoreau gave a lecture in which he argued that individuals must stand up to governmental injustice, a topic he chose because of his disgust over the Mexican- American War and slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Thoreau thoroughly documented the dates, locations and descriptions of observations that he made as he walked around Walden Pond and greater Concord. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Observing the frantic search for wealth among ordinary Americans, Thoreau concluded that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” and took to the woods to find an alternative. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In January 1842, Thoreau’s brother, John, died of tetanus after cutting himself shaving. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The title clearly identifies Thoreau and sets the expectation that two aspects or definitions of freedom will be discussed in two different works. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Fuller was a friend of Emerson and Thoreau, and other intellectuals of her day. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Not long after Thoreau died, critics questioned the accuracy of his natural history observations. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Thoreau also questioned relationships between individuals and the state that other Americans took for granted. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Thoreau nursed him as best he could through his excruciating last days, but in an era before antibiotics, there was no hope. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He gives the examples of “unjust governmental restraints” and “conventional social expectations” as the parts of social life Thoreau rejected, thus limiting the scope of the analysis and preparing for the body of the essay. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Inside the wooden kiosk was a curated selection of books with themes of nature and wandering: Thoreau’s “Walden,” Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild,” Homer’s “The Iliad and Odyssey.” Savoring solitude on the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z We compared Thoreau's notes to modern observations and found that his observations of seasonal events, such as leaf out, flowering, fruiting and bird arrivals, were highly correlated with modern findings. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In his 1849 essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” later republished as “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau discounted majority rule because majorities were so often wrong. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Thoreau himself spent the next four weeks in bed. Review | For three famous writers, grief was crushing — and transformative 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Thoreau’s insistence on standing by his principles and on living a simple life by choice are two abiding themes in his work. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z There was just one glitch in the fascinating Feb. 20 Retropolis article “The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Proposing a better layout for these sports pages 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z This told us that Thoreau captured similar patterns. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Thoreau’s conscience told him that the United States and Massachusetts were both deeply wrong in tolerating the sin of slavery and conducting an unjust war on Mexico. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Yet, until very recently, there has been little acknowledgment that Walden Woods was first occupied by Black people whose experience of self-sufficiency was harrowingly different from Thoreau’s two-year experiment. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau advocates for more individual freedom and for individuals to defy unjust laws in nonviolent ways. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Thoreau’s evolving understanding of his Penobscot neighbors — and what that community was doing during his lifetime — would be an interesting topic for another article. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Proposing a better layout for these sports pages 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z For example, we can see that the order in which flowers bloom in spring around Concord is nearly the same in Thoreau's journals as in modern observations. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The principle of civil disobedience had little impact in Thoreau’s lifetime, but it became central to political protest in the twentieth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Once, Thoreau wrote, a frequenter of the woods passed Zilpah’s house and claimed to have heard her muttering to herself, witchlike, over a gurgling pot — “Ye all are bones, bones!” The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z In Walden, Thoreau describes and advocates for a simple life in which a person breaks with society when they feel the need to express their individualism, often based on ideas others do not share. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Most people read Leopold as belonging to the pantheon of American environmental writers, with the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson and John Muir. ‘An Environmentalist With a Gun’: Inside Steven Rinella’s Hunting Empire 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Thoreau's historical observations have tremendous utility in research. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Citing Thoreau, advocates for an independent India, civil rights for African Americans, and democracy in South Africa all protested oppression by peacefully violating unjust laws to expose the injustice of the governments that imposed them. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, as Thoreau had ample opportunity to dine with friends and parents in town, Brister Freeman struggled to provide his family with enough protein to survive. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Though unable to live as Thoreau advocated, readers everywhere remain inspired by his ideals and his belief in the two freedoms. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Among its finest moments is a reading of “Walden” that plays down solitude to consider, in a sense, Thoreau’s quiet case for staying sane and gainfully employed. New books about WFH burnout stress out at-home reviewer 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Using Thoreau's findings as a baseline, we have found that spring leaf out and flowering are occurring earlier, but the timing of bird arrivals is not changing much. How fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond can inform modern research 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Thoreau’s visit to the Concord jail had long repercussions. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z She also became drawn to Thoreau — his storytelling powers, his deep reading of nature, his staunch abolitionism as one among Concord’s literary luminaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, known as “transcendentalists.” The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Jones concludes by emphasizing the strength of Thoreau’s ideas—his two freedoms—and the influence they have had in the world. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z And, yes, some are “flinty and self-reliant,” rather like Henry David Thoreau. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This photo of Biden seemed to continue a false narrative 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z He read Henry David Thoreau’s transcendentalist writings about Walden while sitting in a cell at night. They were supposed to die in prison. Instead they earned freedom as college graduates 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z I had been reading Henry David Thoreau, who was not much older than me when he famously set off to live two years in the woods at Walden Pond. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Thoreau would sometimes encounter members of this longer-lived Black settlement, relying on them for their hard-won knowledge about the natural world around him, as the author faithfully described in “Walden.” The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z He clearly states his own theme in reading Thoreau, which is . Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She grew up educated and refined in Concord, Mass. Her mother was friends with families of some of America’s greatest thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Podcast: She was the Rosa Parks of the 1800s 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z We all want, in the words of Henry David Thoreau, “to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.” Opinion | One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Thoreau’s spot at Walden Pond, just 25 minutes’ walk from his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, was still wild enough in the 1840s to feel removed from the commotion of everyday life. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Thoreau is able to leave Walden after his experiment, but the Blacks didn’t have that choice, did they? They died of hunger,” she said. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Alex Jones wants readers to know that millions of people worldwide figure in Thoreau’s legacy. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He has scoured data from the diaries of Henry David Thoreau for notes on when flowers bloomed. He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate Change. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Towering oak, maple and beech trees shade streets named after American poets — Poe, Thoreau, Alcott — adding to the charm. Tudors, tall trees and an echo of Old England near downtown Bethesda 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z “I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds,” Thoreau wrote in Walden, “not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.” Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Thoreau was a brilliant and wonderful person in many ways, but he was also privileged.” The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Thoreau opens “Civil Disobedience” with his statement “that government is best which governs not at all.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s famous experiment, documented in the 1854 book “Walden,” of confronting “only the essential facts of life,” by moving to a log cabin in the woods. The Carpenter Who Built Tiny Homes for Toronto’s Homeless 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The written word, Henry David Thoreau proclaimed, is “the work of art nearest to life itself.” Six new museums that are opening amid the pandemic 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Though all you have to do is see the country, there is hardly any time to spare,” Thoreau said of his canoe-camping journeys through the Maine woods. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In lieu of marking Freeman’s burial site, which is unknown, Madison’s group oversaw the installation of a boulder on Freeman’s homesite inscribed with an excerpt of Thoreau’s words about him in “Walden.” The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Because Thoreau did not want his freedom overshadowed by government regulations, he tried to ignore them. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He’s been on leave as principal of Thoreau Middle School in Vienna. Police: School principal failed to report abuse complaint 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z At a California community college, she read and enjoyed “a lot of odes to nature from white men,” especially the work of Henry David Thoreau. Advocate encourages people of color to explore the outdoors 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Once I arrived, my only plans were to make camp, read Thoreau, write in my journal, eat, sleep and, perhaps, fish. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In all, about 15 Black people moved into Walden Woods, their cabins clustered in a “small village,” as Thoreau would later describe them. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z For nearly 200 years, Thoreau’s formulation of passive resistance has been a part of the human struggle for freedom. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Millinocket is a rural community that serves as gateway to North Woods made famous by Henry David Thoreau. 1 wedding may undo Maine’s virus fight, officials say 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The sensation is of ceasing activity, of letting the outside seep in through the cracks of the string quartet, of Thoreau and his pond, of stopping everything that runs and listening for something else. Why John Cage's String Quartet is the perfect music for our messy world 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet Thoreau wrote in The Maine Woods, “I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is.” Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In September 1846, 29-year-old Henry David Thoreau took a train to Bangor, Maine, and then set out by canoe and foot to climb Mt. Review: A powerful climate novel reminds us that people are animals too 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Thoreau also wanted to be free from the everyday pressures to conform to society’s expectations. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The younger Mr. Richardson spent part of his childhood at a parsonage in Medford, across the street from where Emerson and Thoreau attended a meeting of the Transcendental Club. Robert D. Richardson, prizewinning biographer of American thinkers, dies at 86 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z His signature biographies — of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James — together trace the implications of our founding ideals for the growth of a distinctly American philosophy. Opinion | How America can shift to the right direction 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z I envy authors like Thoreau who could write meandering, joyous, even spiritual celebrations of rivers and mountains and ponds without fearing the looming absence of vibrant ecosystems they loved. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z As Thoreau put it, “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Review: A powerful climate novel reminds us that people are animals too 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z He summarizes Thoreau’s activities at Walden and quotes Thoreau as evidence to reinforce the freedom of mind that simple living allows. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He later lived in Concord, where he rolled his eyes at buildings, streets, restaurants and bars named after Thoreau. Robert D. Richardson, prizewinning biographer of American thinkers, dies at 86 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Thoreau went to jail rather than pay taxes that would support slavery and an unjust war, explaining himself in the classic essay “Civil Disobedience.” Opinion | How America can shift to the right direction 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z That is not to say that Thoreau saw no threats to nature in his own time. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The house in Medford was the former meeting place for the Transcendental Club, whose members included Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. Prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson dies at age 86 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The body of the essay gives specific evidence of how Thoreau ate, built, read, and provided for his needs, cutting away all but the essential man in the two settings of his life. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Richardson wrote his doctoral thesis on “Spoon River Anthology,” a collection by American poet Edgar Lee Masters, before turning toward Thoreau, an author he had initially dismissed during his years as a college student. Robert D. Richardson, prizewinning biographer of American thinkers, dies at 86 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Thoreau’s conscientious nation can’t accept one who brandishes a Bible to ward off dissent. Opinion | How America can shift to the right direction 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z From his perch on Walden Pond, Thoreau championed solitude as a way to live life to the fullest. Special Report: Meet the masters of social distancing - Couple live alone in wilderness for decades 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z A native of Milwaukee, Richardson grew up in Massachusetts and had a close affinity with Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and other New England writers. Prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson dies at age 86 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Then, as now, most people had more responsibilities than Thoreau had and could not just pack up their belongings and go live in the woods—if they could find free woods to live in. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Our early philosophers — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau — preached a gospel of self-reliance. Perspective | Billionaires are playing savior now. But they broke the economy to begin with. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter,” an exuberant Thoreau writes in “Walden.” Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut? 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z I had conceived of their existence as a kind of Walden of the West, fashioned after the 19th century treatise on self-sufficiency by Massachusetts writer Henry David Thoreau. Special Report: Meet the masters of social distancing - Couple live alone in wilderness for decades 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Concord was home in the 19th century to Emerson and Thoreau among others. Prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson dies at age 86 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Today, people are intrigued to read about Thoreau’s experiences and are inspired by his thoughts, but few people can actually live or do as he suggests. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z I like to think about Henry David Thoreau and what he wrote in his book Walden: “Find your eternity in each moment”. 'I need to get as much done as possible – I've had cancer': culture during coronavirus 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Walks in the woods are all well and good, as Thoreau illustrated in his transcendentalist classic, “Walden.” Opinion | What I Miss Most Is Swimming 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Even then, his self-reliance was apparently limited: Thoreau would take his dirty laundry home for his mother to wash. Special Report: Meet the masters of social distancing - Couple live alone in wilderness for decades 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z “Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind” was published in 1986 and had a more personal impact on his life. Prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson dies at age 86 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, practical or not, Thoreau’s writings about freedom from government and society have inspired countless people to reassess how they live their lives. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When the first and second Du Pre novels, “Coyote Wind” and “Specimen Song” came out, they were greeted with critical fanfare - including a memorable New York Times rave review headlined “Thoreau in Montana.” Montana novelist remembered as a ‘writer’s writer’ 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z There isn’t a particle of Thoreau in me. Perspective | Living without sports will teach us something about how much we really need them 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Maine is known for its lobsters, quaint fishing villages and lighthouses, a deep logging tradition and Henry David Thoreau’s “North Woods.” Happy 200th birthday to Maine, but virus zaps the party 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Thoreau is near the southern boundary of the main portion of the Navajo Nation’s reservation. Warrant issued for man sentenced to prison over dog’s death 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z He describes the form and structure of Thoreau’s works when . Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau penned poems and essays praising the wildness of nature and lamenting the hyper-civilization of towns. Lincoln’s forgotten legacy as America’s first ‘green president’ 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z In 1845, Henry David Thoreau went into the woods alone outside Concord, Mass., with a few tools. Perspective | Living without sports will teach us something about how much we really need them 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z “I quoted Henry David Thoreau: ‘Of what use is a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?’ When saving the planet spoils the charm of historic houses 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z A state District Court judge in Gallup issued an arrest warrant on Monday for 35-year-old George A. Milliken of Thoreau after he failed to surrender Feb. 17 to start serving a two-year sentence. Warrant issued for man sentenced to prison over dog’s death 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z He places Thoreau and his works in context by . Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Thoreau’s power to observe, experience and articulate turned every droplet, glint and drone of water, light and life into a meditative epiphany. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Influenced by thinkers such as Jesus, Henry David Thoreau and Gandhi, King believed that moral goals must be pursued by moral methods — by means that bring credit to the principle itself. Opinion | Can hate drive out hate? MLK Jr. would disagree. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It appears that dates of first flowering advanced more in warm years in Thoreau’s Massachusetts than in Quackenbush’s Maine. How a mid-20th-century hunting guide may fill the gaps on climate change in Maine 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Concord was the site of Revolutionary War battles and a 19th-century literary community that included Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Flames consume mansion as crews struggle to get water on it 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z He indicates Thoreau’s unusual language at times, such as . Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When she would withdraw, head tucked with shame and confusion, those moments spent in a boat with Thoreau provided a touchstone. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Every Sunday while filming “Little Women,” she said, she would visit the spot where Henry David Thoreau wrote his manifesto about a life in the woods. In the snow with Greta Gerwig at the places that inspired 'Little Women' 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Joe was arrested on murder charges months later by U.S. marshals at his mother’s home in Thoreau, officials said. Man sentenced to 15 years for fatally shooting man in 2017 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “I have a room all to myself,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Look at the questions you answered to address the essay about Thoreau. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Like Thoreau’s water bugs and skaters navigating the pond, she learned to find her way, watch closely, move quietly, trust herself to find her place in the world. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z And yes, the name is a nod to Henry David Thoreau. Newsletter: DACA, and the fate of 200,000 in California, in doubt 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z This reader imagined Louv seated at Walden Pond writing it, channeling Henry David Thoreau, who spent two years at the pond west of Boston, watching wildlife and thinking about environmental solutions and social challenges. Author endeavors to show how animals relate to humans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Soon after, he named the project after Henry David Thoreau’s book “Walden” — a reflection on simple life surrounded by nature. Walden Monterey, a 600-acre fusion of nature and luxury, moves forward 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Snell was working as a teacher focused on students with learning disabilities at Thoreau Middle School in Vienna. Local Digest: Man in crash on I-270 is killed after exiting car 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z When was the last time you heard Thoreau’s wood thrush? Opinion | Cats are perfect little killing machines. Spay or neuter them. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The man’s personal belongings were found on the shore of the pond made famous by writer, naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and his car was found in the parking lot. Body recovered at Walden Pond after 5-day search 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “Only I think it was Thoreau who said that.” You might not like hearing what Brandel Chamblee has to say, but you're a smarter golf fan for listening - Golf Digest 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The pond and surrounding land inspired writer, naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century. Police search for missing man at Walden Pond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Police declined to say whether the victim was a student at Thoreau. Local Digest: Man in crash on I-270 is killed after exiting car 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z It is about our disconnect from our ancestral roots — our “wildness,” Thoreau called it. Review | A hopeful skeptic joins the search for the sasquatch 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Thoreau, like Hyde, remembers forgetting, but he is consumed by neither memory nor loss. Review | To find serenity, freedom and creativity, sometimes it’s best to forget 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z From Henry David Thoreau onwards, the landscape of nature-writing has been dominated by men. US briefing: Trump condemned and Instagram murder 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Living a life of quiet desperation, you’re ready to hear Thoreau’s inspiring advice. The books to read at every age, from 1 to 100 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Stranger still, when you realise that Thoreau's family made its money by manufacturing high-quality pencils. Have we all underrated the humble pencil? 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist and philosopher, wrote in his “Journal” that “Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts — the very undertow of our life's stream.” Review: In ‘COLA 2019,’ the city of L.A. gives its artists a place to sound off 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But Hyde is no Nietzschean; he’s closer to Henry David Thoreau, who relished the sense of losing something instead of pounding his chest to insist that there was never anything to be lost. Review | To find serenity, freedom and creativity, sometimes it’s best to forget 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Cole’s humbler environs were to him rather as Walden Pond was to his younger contemporary Thoreau. Timelessness in Works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The house was a mile or so from Walden Pond, where, as Gropius liked to point out, Thoreau had built his own thrifty show house. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Odell and Newport cite a common philosophical inspiration: Henry David Thoreau. What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Being here again in Cambridge, I find myself going to Walden Pond every month just to remember the literary engagement of a person like Henry David Thoreau or Emerson or Margaret Fuller. Terry Tempest Williams on nature writing: 'My heart is very deep in these wild lands' 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In the words of the writer Henry David Thoreau: “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Genetic paradox explained by nonsense 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The developer of “Walden: A Game,” based on the Henry David Thoreau book, intends to focus more on her personal design projects. ‘Rocketeer’ scribe Danny Bilson to lead USC Games 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “Walden” is in part a book about building a house, but the structure needed to function only well enough and long enough to give Thoreau a subject for his prose. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But Thoreau, whose mother, famously, did his laundry during his two years of camping on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s property at Walden Pond, is an inadvertent exemplar of the difficulty of setting oneself apart from society. What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He published her poem “Thoreau’s Flute” and was so impressed with “Hospital Sketches” that he commissioned an original story. Review | Before ‘Little Women,’ Louisa May Alcott found inspiration in a Civil War hospital 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Like his hero, Henry David Thoreau, he was inspired equally by reverence for the planet and anger against injustice. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The Gita is the one book that Gandhi took with him to prison, and among the few that Thoreau carried with him into seclusion at Walden Pond. Following Your Dharma in an Age of Climate Change 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Thoreau raises a fundamental question in space exploration. Be Kind to Extraterrestrials 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Turns out Henry David Thoreau made a similar complaint in the age of the telegraph. Opinion | Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Cohen, unsmiling in his portrait, chose a passage by Henry David Thoreau. The fixer’s secret agenda 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The New Mexico State Police said a SUV driven by 27-year-old Shannon Hosteen of Thoreau on Thursday rear-ended a big rig stopped because of another accident. Woman, child killed in two-vehicle wreck on Interstate 40 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Edwards also cited the “civil disobedience” of Henry David Thoreau as a rationale, among other historical moments. Inside the Beltway: New Hampshire GOP won’t be a ‘soft target’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s been called hypocrisy, but it might better be described a lesson: do as Thoreau did, not as he said. Back to the land: are young farmers the new starving artists? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z One news report linked him to Thoreau, saying he lives “just around the corner” from the school, but did not publish his name. A boy tried to kill himself by jumping from a highway bridge. He killed someone else instead. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “There is nothing,” wrote the great American writer Henry David Thoreau, “not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay to life itself, than this incessant business.” Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The retired professor of English literature, an expert in Henry David Thoreau, had amassed a trove of specialty texts, including books he had written. For those who lose homes to wildfires, the challenges of rebuilding are daunting 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z He traces the idea of a fulfilled, liberated life back to 19th-century writer Henry David Thoreau and his paean to nature, Walden. Can anyone retire in their 30s? Meet the people who say yes 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Thoreau, who in addition to “Walden” also wrote the essay “Wild Apples,” would roll over in his grave to consider his subject’s fate. The Urbanist Guide to Wild Apples 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that news reports identified the 12-year-old as a Thoreau Middle School student. A boy tried to kill himself by jumping from a highway bridge. He killed someone else instead. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Henry David Thoreau raised an eyebrow: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Opinion | The Hacking of America 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z None of the other examples Mr. Milbank cited — the civil rights movement, antiwar protests, Henry David Thoreau fighting slavery, the Boston Tea Party — involved speakers being disrupted. Opinion | Interrupting is not protest 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The collision happened on Thursday on a highway near the town of Thoreau, New Mexico. Seven die in 'horrifying' Greyhound crash 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The State Police did not immediately say how many people were killed and injured, or the cause of the crash on Interstate 40 near Thoreau, New Mexico. 'Multiple' deaths in New Mexico bus-truck crash: officials 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The crash occurred near the town of Thoreau. Police report fatalities in New Mexico bus crash 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Thoreau was as alone in his skepticism as he was in his cabin. Opinion | The Hacking of America 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The crash happened Thursday afternoon near the town of Thoreau in western New Mexico. Police: Passengers injured in New Mexico bus crash 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “What is the use of a house,” Thoreau reminds us, “if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” A piece of Alaskan paradise is at risk. Here's why we must save it | Kim Heacox 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Assigned schools are Vienna Elementary, Thoreau Middle and Madison High, all rated above average by GreatSchools.org based on test scores. Three-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in Vienna, Va., lists for $300,000 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Evidence is in the blueberry bushes in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond, the dwindling population of polar bears of the Arctic and the dying corals worldwide. Looking for signs of global warming? It’s all around you 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The enterprising family turned the tenant farmhouse, once slated for destruction, into a place where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and other literary neighbors would drop by for intellectual discussions. 150 years on, ‘Little Women’ and its author still resonate 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The boys were paddleboarding Sunday on the Massachusetts pond made famous by writer Henry David Thoreau when they noticed the struggling man. 2 young boys earn praise for Walden Pond paddleboard rescue 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “It is worse than boorish, it is criminal to inflict an unnecessary injury on the tree that feeds or shadows us,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment,” Thoreau wrote in his journal. Opinion | Kilauea sets eternity before our very eyes 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps borrowing from Henry David Thoreau, President Roosevelt added the most enduring line from his first inaugural address while at work on the speech at the Mayflower Hotel in the first days of March 1933. Opinion | Why Trump Is More Father Coughlin Than Franklin Roosevelt 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Thoreau Chapter Veterans Committee Commander Lester Emerson says they will work with the state Department of Veterans Services to hire a doctor to be based there. Navajo Nation approves $2.4 million for veterans facility 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s like Thoreau going into the woods to find peace and quiet—you think a lot differently when you are sitting under a 200-year-old oak tree,” said Nick Jekogian, Walden’s developer. Luxury Homes That Promise to Reduce Stress—For $4 Million 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm in Concord, Massachusetts, are auctioning the replica , built last year to mark the 200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth. Bids short of goal so far for replica of Thoreau’s cabin 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm in Concord, Massachusetts are auctioning the replica , built last year to mark the 200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth. Replica of Thoreau’s cabin for auction 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Emerson and Thoreau would have been ashamed at what America has become. Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Wade became part of a rap group he named Civil Disobedience - a callback to Henry David Thoreau’s essays on the topic that Wade turned into a tattoo across his stomach. Teacher’s passion for theater helped free him of heroin 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Wade became part of a rap group he named Civil Disobedience — a callback to Henry David Thoreau’s essays on the topic that Wade turned into a tattoo across his stomach. Teacher’s passion for theater helped free him of heroin 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures,” Thoreau wrote there. A good night’s sleep can be a key feature in your dream home 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Richard Higgins is a writer and editor in Concord, Mass., and the author, most recently, of “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” How Martin Luther became a publishing smash — and created books as we know them 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z I wasn’t exactly expecting the Buddha, but a minor-league Thoreau would have been nice. This reclusive life: what I learned about solitude from my time with hermits 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z |
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