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 ...

Steve Purdy, 58, of Claymount, Del., hikes at cloud level on the Knife Edge, a narrow serrated ridge leading to the summit of Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine. Henry David Thoreau made his ...

Henry David Thoreau might seem an unlikely candidate for a digital reformatting, but the State University of New York at Geneseo has given the author's most famous work, Walden, an online presence ...

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 ...

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth — err, game. Henry David Thoreau wrote those words — most of them ...

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A screenshot of late-summer boating on the version of Concord's Walden Pond in the PS4 game "Walden, a game." (Courtesy USC Game Innovation Lab) Have you ever wondered what it was like for Concord ...

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, his ...

Schnur (The Shadow Children) deftly plucks Thoreau's own words from Walden, and Fiore's (The Boston Tea Party) luminous watercolor and oil paintings affectingly evoke the simplicity and serenity of ...

Henry David Thoreau might seem an unlikely candidate for a digital reformatting, but the State University College at Geneseo has given the author's most famous work, Walden, an online presence never ...