When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the ... “to take money twice for the same piece of work.” He had an old ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy ... Emerson read widely, including the works of Neo-Platonists and books on Confucianism. Upon resettling in Concord, Massachusetts, he wove these diverse ...

Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he ...

By Unsie Zuege Emerson and Thoreau are back. They return to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum for three weeks beginning Thursday, Aug. 19 through Sunday Sept. 5. There, using the bucolic fields ...