The Warminster Library will hold a historical re-enactment with the literary figure known for living at Walden Pond in the ...

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

who gave permission to build the simple cabin at nearby Walden Pond that inspired Thoreau’s most famous book and has since become a shrine for followers and devotees. I have a soft spot ...

The term was first used 170 years ago, in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden, which highlights society’s tendency to devalue complex ideas in favour of simple ones, indicative of a general ...

According to Action News Jax, Oxford University Press has picked its word that sums up the year 2024. The usage, according to ...

What I found at the top of the mountain was a radiant view over the blue Pacific, freedom from all distraction and a day that ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

Abe Lincoln was a cabin dweller. Henry David Thoreau spent a couple of years in one near Walden Pond. Ethel Waters, on Broadway and in film, sang longingly about a cabin parked high in the sky.

The first recorded use of the word was in 1854 in “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau, Oxford said. According to Thoreau-online.org, the following passage from the book’s conclusion contains the ...