The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived a life of ...

Henry David Thoreau, Walden SUSAN BROUGH has come to the woods in Concord because she wishes to swim deliberately. With broad ...

WARMINSTER, PA —Poet and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau may have lived in Walden Woods, but he will be spending some time ...

Thoreau worried about society’s desire to dumb down complex ideas. He feared a decline in intellect when he wrote the ...

Jesse Green, The New York Times: Despite the hat tip to Thoreau in its title, “Walden” eventually goes full soap opera. Its crisis isn’t so much about forcing Stella to choose between Mars ...