A key lesson from Walden is the value of self-reliance in achieving simplicity and independence. Thoreau encourages the ...

Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate ...

WARMINSTER, PA —Poet and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau may have lived in Walden Woods, but he will be spending some time ...

Henry David Thoreau set out from the family home in Concord, Massachusetts, to take up residence at nearby Walden Pond to find himself. He was not yet 28. He had a degree from HarvardCollege ...

A rare manuscript by Thoreau, featuring his reflections on Eastham, just sold at auction as part of a limited set.

“I am on the alert for the first signs of spring,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. The author of Walden recorded first flowering times from 1852 to 1858 for more than 300 plant species in ...

The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived a life of ...