Pick was a futurist at a time when many people thought the world would be lucky to escape a nuclear exchange. So for his contemporaries, it was barely worth a mention that a newly minted millionaire ...

October is the month for painted leaves,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in a wonderful essay called “Autumnal Tints” that a ...

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

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Richard Smith is retiring after portraying Henry David Thoreau in Concord for 26 years. Smith's retirement date, Sept. 6, coincides with the date Thoreau left Walden Pond in 1847. Smith plans to ...

Concord, MA, USA July 10, 2009 A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin in Walden Pond, where he would write is famous essay Walden. Credit: iStock Henry David Thoreau is the ...

Maybe you’re sitting in class trying to listen to your professor, but your laptop is open and you’re somewhere else. Maybe you’re getting coffee with a friend, you’re both on your phones, not ignoring ...