Tag Archives: Henry David Thoreau

Here I Bloom for a Short Hour Unseen

In “Sic Vita” Thoreau uses the image of plucked flowers to wrestle with the meaning of life and death.

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Thoreau To Obama: Play More Golf

Thoreau would criticize contemporary Americans for working too hard.

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Robin Williams Made Poetry Cool

Robin Williams gave us one of cinema’s greatest depictions of a literature teacher.

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No More Privacy–And We Don’t Care

We no longer fiercely guide our privacy, as did the worlds of Austen, Trollope, Thoreau, and Melville.

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The Zen of an Old Growth Forest

Biologist David Haskell approaches forests in a way that is both scientific and poetic.

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