On this eight-degree morning, with clean sunlight flooding the upstairs office and a small dog asleep on the couch behind my ...

Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s ...

CONCORD - American literary icon Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days at Walden Pond, writing what would later be published as his book "Walden." Now, nearly 180 years later, ...

Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...

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. Admirers of the pioneering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walden Pond. Ekabhishek/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” urges American transcendentalist writer ...

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A new film radically adapts Henry David Thoreau’s classic transcendental work “Walden” and transports it to contemporary Colorado. Director Alex Harvey, a Denver native now based in New York, believes ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s birth, people are still ...

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