WARMINSTER, 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 ...

If the world is a canvas, as Henry David Thoreau wrote, then we are brushes painting our legacies onto it. But if you’re a child in a place where plain adults create the rules, how do you assert some ...

Brain rot” was chosen as the 2024 Word of the Year, but what does it mean?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...