Thoreau wrote in painstaking detail about how he chose to remove himself from society to live by his own means in a little 10 by 15 foot hand-hewn
Thoreau also lived at Walden for a total of two or three years, but he condensed the book down to a single year--
Thoreau said I love having a broad margin to my life.
Thoreau was their neighbor.
- Thoreau, there's a beautiful passage: "As the willow has presented itself within the doors of the doorknob.
And Thoreau, he captured that a long time ago.
Scott Thoreau. A bunch of authors.
'Poor Thoreau,' said Sam.
And Thoreau said. 'The unexamined life is not worth living' and it's just about examining our lives a little bit, a little bit deeper, just to get "Who are you? Who are we? What
The idea of Thoreau gazing thoughtfully over the expansive transcendental Walden Pond, a bluebird alighting on his threadbare shoe, all the while eating donuts that his mom
And his friend Thoreau said yes, indeed-- all the branches and none of the roots.
So this is Thoreau.
Or to take Thoreau's metaphor, imagine you're looking at the sky, and you see the Big Dipper there.
It was Thoreau who said the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The clarity of Thoreau.
Jesse Nichols: The Thoreau quote, "The unexamined life," that definitely came to mind when I was looking at this. And the feeling that I've always gotten--. I was growing up, I've
things about Thoreau in here, he used to take her on nature walks in the woods, she learned all about the natural world from Thoreau. Emerson was her father's best friend, so he
Now someone like Thoreau did not call his movement to Walden Pond a happiness project.
I loved Joan of Arc and Henry Thoreau, two famous misfits, when I was younger, and my mother actually researched alien abduction while I was growing up.
No less than Henry David Thoreau has been called a poser.
bent.” And that's an echo of Thoreau and Walden when he talks about the sleepwalkers, and as they sleep the folk are walking on their backs and when they wake up and stay woke—and
Read Emerson. Read Thoreau.
He had a conversation with his friend Henry David Thoreau.
Right? Emerson and Thoreau and the Lone Ranger and the whole thing and that turns out to just be wrong.
It's a very heady, thoretical-- Of course, of course.
You probably have read tons of books that have been-- hundreds of books written since Thoreau wrote that quotes about increasing your happiness and increasing your
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil." Henry David Thoreau, 1846, on Walden.
Well, what's interesting about these experiments with Ms. Thorely is that they are the forerunners of experiments that are now
all the time, and that every Sunday, Thoreau's mother and sister brought him a basket of freshly-baked goods, including donuts.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." Thoreau wrote this
And then a certain fever breaks out and if we're lucky, we have this Thoreauvian moment--a recognition that we have to stop hacking at the branches and start striking at the roots,
And when confronted with this systematic block, my suggestion is we need to exercise this Thoreauvian insight.
I wanted that small is beautiful, the Henry David Thoreau, simplified "Walden" life.
I wanted that small is beautiful, the Henry David Thoreau, simplified "Walden" life.
of unknowable nature. Vandermeer's novel has been compared to the work of the great American ruralist, philosophical ruralist, Henry David Thoreau, whose 1851
is human. I will tell that woman that my students can talk about Transcendentalism like their last name was Thoreau.
There's an interesting metaphor for this, these kind of connections, for which I'd like to turn to Henry David Thoreau, actually.
body starts to decay? That's it? No more consciousness? That's what happens?" "Yes," or, "no," or, "I don't know." Or whatever, but I think that Thoreau--. I think that Soul Pancake is really
Oh my gosh! Kelly: Uh huh. Concord, Concord was the most important place to be in the 1850's; um, in terms of writing and thinking in American philosophy. And she, Thoreau, I have some