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Henry David Thoreau's Books
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Walden and Civil DisobedienceENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Naturalist and philosopher Thoreau's timeless essays on the role of humanity -- in the world...Read More
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Affluent Magazine, May 16, 2012
...Henry David Thoreau said, “Things do not change, we do.” This short statement is a call to action that labels us as personally responsible for the directions our lives take. If...
Alternatives Journal, May 15, 2012
...it is in the literature of the American West that wilderness reaches a feverish, wildfire pitch. Inspired by Henry David Thoreau and his influential idea that “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” American writers of the West have revered...
Evansville Courier, May 14, 2012
...a few years now D.B. Johnson has been writing and illustrating a series of books inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden. To do so Johnson has created "Henry," a lovable bear who is awed by nature and his surroundings. In "Henry's Night," Henry goes...
Wicked Local Cape Cod, May 12, 2012
...that moves between 2007 and 1891 to tie loose ends together.” To prepare for a recent talk on Henry David Thoreau, Speyer read “Woods Burner” by John Pipkin. While sharing Thoreau’s love of nature, Speyer also empathized with Thoreau’s pain....
Lowell Sun, May 10, 2012
...the interests of literature." Every region of Massachusetts has produced great poets. Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau lived in Concord; Emily Dickinson lived in prolific seclusion in Amherst; Herman Melville, who wrote...
Lowell Sun, May 10, 2012
...the interests of literature." Every region of Massachusetts has produced great poets. Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau lived in Concord; Emily Dickinson lived in prolific seclusion in Amherst; Herman Melville, who wrote...
Times Higher Education Supplement, May 9, 2012
...walked to Author's Ridge atop Sleepy Hollow cemetery while imagining the funeral processions for Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Memory and imagination - the indispensable tools of writers - are sheltered inside the walls of homes, says...
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 3, 2012
...and 0’00”, representing the Hindu states of Nirvana, Samsara, and Individual Action. Cage was influenced greatly by Henry David Thoreau who will be represented by two works: Score and Lecture on the Weather, which consists of readings from...
Santa Barbara Independent, March 3, 2012
...— the idea that you could know the world by sounding a pond [or measuring its depth as Henry David Thoreau does in Walden] and looking closely enough that you would see revelations around you. I liked that idea, but I think I saw myself as — this is...
National Catholic Reporter, March 3, 2012
...stops for prayer. Author Matthew Kelly once said that he took a cue for his prayer life from Henry David Thoreau, who wrote in Walden, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately ... and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...
Dissident Voice, March 2, 2012
...and what we are as human beings. Those who are most alive are passionate about everything they do. Henry David Thoreau famously declared in his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Let every man make known the kind of government that would...
AllVoices, March 2, 2012
...toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. - Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience...
Acton Patch, March 2, 2012
...followed by a gourmet dinner with entertainment provided by Felice Pomeranz: The Gilded Harps and special guest speaker Henry David Thoreau as portrayed by veteran actor Richard Smith. Price: $75 includes tax and gratuity. Goodbye Winter Festival ...
Sudbury Patch, March 2, 2012
...followed by a gourmet dinner with entertainment provided by Felice Pomeranz: The Gilded Harps and special guest speaker Henry David Thoreau as portrayed by veteran actor Richard Smith. Price: $75 includes tax and gratuity. Goodbye Winter Festival ...
