Many have heard the aphorism “The best government is that which governs least,” famously quoted in Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay, “Civil Disobedience.” While we at the Leader are not ...
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Meet Henry David Thoreau At Warminster LibraryWARMINSTER, PA —Poet and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau may have lived in Walden Woods, but he will be spending some time this weekend at the Warminster Township Free Library. The library is ...
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” – Henry David Thoreau. Maybe a hectic ...
Brain rot” was chosen as the 2024 Word of the Year, but what does it mean?
In this immersive historical fiction Helen Humphreys richly imagines the robust inner life of naturalist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1861) inspired by the journals he kept from 1837 ...
The detailed notes that Henry David Thoreau kept about weather, plants, and seasons are helping scientists measure the effects of global warming. This story appears in the July 2016 issue of ...
Like two of my heroes, Henry David Thoreau and Charles Darwin, I do my best thinking while on walks. Thoreau trekked the beaches and mountains of New England; when at Down House, Darwin took to hi ...
Read this sentence from Henry David Thoreau (I paraphrase): “The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then, when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.” [i] Thoreau accomplishes ...
In the mid-19th century, naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau thoroughly lamented the expansion of the railroad. Thoreau was ...
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