So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game ... Sponsor Message That's the writer Henry David Thoreau — not my favorite line from his memoir Walden, but perhaps the most apt for ...

Henry David Thoreau was callous to others’ misfortune, puritanical, misanthropic, adolescent, hypocritical, “as parochial as he was egotistical,” and morally despotic, according to the New ...

By long years of patient industry and reading of the newspapers — for what are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — a man accumulates a myriad facts, lays them up in his memory ...

According to a community announcement, “An Evening with Henry David Thoreau” will take place ... people of all ages and foster a love for reading. This program is supported by a grant from ...

I’ve been reading the classic nature writers, especially the 19th-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau. The author of “Walden,” it turns out, has little to say about butterflies but ...

Instead, I have found myself reading the writings of the man who took care of Emerson’s kids while the Sage of Concord was away: the childless Henry David Thoreau. In his 44 years of life ...

There is one author whose body of work explores all these themes: Henry David Thoreau ... our ability to be intellectually challenged. Reading and writing can provide us with these challenges and ...

Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate change on New England's seasons. Thoreau's meticulous notes on river ice, ...