The new biography "Henry David Thoreau: A Life" is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves. I have been reading Thoreau and reading about him for 40 years; I've written a book ...

A retired Utah hospital administrator who quotes Thoreau and Shakespeare solved his most vexing problems for the past 40 ...

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 ...

She openly mocked Henry David Thoreau, whose bicentennial we ... condemnation of the mindlessly acquisitive bourgeois life. Reading Thoreau was like listening to a sympathetic, companionable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...