Until recently, there was little acknowledgment that Walden Woods was first occupied by formerly enslaved men and women whose experience of self-sufficiency was harrowingly different from Thoreau ...

To celebrate Wednesday's 200th birthday of the great American thinker Henry David Thoreau, you could take a nature walk, renounce all your possessions or simply read Walden, or Life in the Woods ...

On this day in history, August 9, 1954, the influential "Walden, or a Life in the Woods," by Henry David Thoreau was published, about the virtues of simple living in a modern world.

In 1845, a shy young man named Henry David Thoreau “went to the woods to live deliberately.” Using old boards from a nearby shanty, he and a few friends built a small cabin near Walden Pond in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Henry David Thoreau's at-one-with-nature classic Walden gets the indie film treatment in Walden: Life In the Woods. In this exclusive trailer, the reimagining keeps the spirit of ...

He had plenty of beaked, scaly, and leafy neighbors at the kettle pond—the state’s deepest natural puddle—and he chronicled his encounters with them in Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, his ...

He went to the woods to live deliberately. Now you can too — virtually, with your family. Tracy Fullerton, director of the USC Game Innovation Lab and designer of "Walden, A Game,” has made ...

Thoreau’s new project, originally entitled Walden; or Life in the Woods, also dealt with his neighbors’ assumption that he lacked ambition. Yet somehow, he produced one of the most profound ...

But that doesn't necessarily mean they're well-versed in Thoreau's work, particularly his 1854 book Walden, or Life in the Woods, where he wrote about "brain-rot." ...

The Massachusetts pond, best known as Thoreau's home for two years and an inspiration for his famous 1854 book Walden, or, Life in the Woods, ...