Walden (book)

Thoreau's time at Walden Pond has provided substantial data for scientists monitoring the effects of a warming climate on the area's plant life.

A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.

Thoreau’s life is a lesson not in self-reliance, but in discerning whom and what to rely on, whether you’re one person or a state of 29 million.

Generations of readers have chosen to emphasize Thoreau's spiritual communion with Nature, but Walden begins with trenchant critique of “progress.”

A review on the many publications about Henry David Thoreau's life for the bicentennial anniversary of his birthday.

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are.

Thoreau’s loafing and the purpose of life.

On the necessary “deep sincerity” of dark humor.

Literary history is packed into Concord’s “Old Manse,” but the tiny abode of Walden’s author proves the highlight of our New England trip.

Thoreau-themed goods, designed for mindfulness, are the marketplace’s remedies for a problem which, according to Thoreau, was created by the marketplace itself.

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

Decades before Thoreau's famous experiment, a community of formerly enslaved men and women had a much different experience of life in the woods.

Freeing Thoreau from layers of caricature that have long distorted his legacy.

The geological origins of the American Revolution.

Ever since Thoreau headed to Walden, our attention has been wandering.

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.

The writer had a deep bond with his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But he also had a profound connection with Emerson’s wife.

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.

In his 2-million-word journal, the transcendentalist balanced poetic wonder and scientific rigor as he explored the natural world.