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Articles for Thoreau

Opinion: What I find in solitude and silence on the cliffs of Big Sur
1 week ago

Opinion: What I find in solitude and silence on the cliffs of Big Sur

LA Times  

As a student, like many of us, I liked to read Henry David Thoreau. Of course it was not easy to leave my mother or my wife-to-be behind, but it felt worthwhile if I could bring back to them someone who was fresh and attentive and brimming with delight, and not the distracted and overburdened soul they otherwise saw, grumbling, …

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The necessity of withdrawing
4 weeks, 2 days ago

The necessity of withdrawing

ABC  

To launch The Minefield's 2024 Summer series, we have selected an episode which featured as part of our Ramadan series earlier this year. This year, it was a famous line from Henry David Thoreau, which occurs in the chapter of Walden titled "Visitors", that guided our way: "I had three chairs in my house", Thoreau writes; "one for solitude, two …

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'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
2 months ago

'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings

BBC  

'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings John Brett, 1856. 'Reverence for nature' The exhibition also highlights the pioneering environmental work of the lesser-known US scientist, inventor and women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote, whose 1856 publication Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays in The American Journal of Science and Arts, …

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Way of the Hermit: Ken Smith’s book about the lonely life is a blessing.
7 months, 1 week ago

Way of the Hermit: Ken Smith’s book about the lonely life is a blessing.

Slate  

In Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia, a rich noblewoman named Lady Croom is having the grounds of her estate redone by the 1809 version of a trendy landscape architect. Yet The Way of the Hermit feels qualitatively different from other hermit-related books, whether the canonical—Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, natch—or lesser-known works: Howard Axelrod’s powerful 2015 memoir of two years spent alone …

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Pico Iyer opens up about his new book The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
2 years ago

Pico Iyer opens up about his new book The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

Firstpost  

In this in-depth and heartfelt interview, he answers questions about the making of this book, the inner journeys that accompanied the outer ones, his close association with the Dalai Lama, and more Pico Iyer is known for writing books that transport you to places across the world but also bring you home to yourself. Believers, by comparison, nearly always spend …

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National Simplicity Day 2022: Date, time, significance, theme, quotes and messages
2 years, 5 months ago

National Simplicity Day 2022: Date, time, significance, theme, quotes and messages

India Today  

Every year National Simplicity Day is observed on July 12. NATIONAL SIMPLICITY DAY 2022: HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817. NATIONAL SIMPLICITY DAY 2022: THEME The theme for this year is ‘Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities.' NATIONAL SIMPLICITY DAY 2022: QUOTES AND MESSAGES

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Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’
2 years, 6 months ago

Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson on the Sierra and why humans might just ‘squeak by’

LA Times  

On the Shelf The High Sierra: A Love Story By Kim Stanley Robinson Little Brown: 560 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the nearly 40 years since, Robinson has established himself as a visionary science fiction writer — the author of more …

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Thoreau, Walden, and solitude: What could the transcendentalists teach a Pakistani American woman?
3 years, 2 months ago

Thoreau, Walden, and solitude: What could the transcendentalists teach a Pakistani American woman?

Slate  

Slate has relationships with various online retailers. From behind the laptop screen, I looked to the swaying branches of the trees outside and wondered, “Was Thoreau’s solitude the same as mine?” Where I come from, which is Karachi, Pakistan, the common meaning attached to any wish to be alone is concern. Perhaps because she was raised in solitude, Cynthia Thoreau …

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Swami Vivekananda to Thoreau, How Yoga Became a Phenomenon in the West
3 years, 6 months ago

Swami Vivekananda to Thoreau, How Yoga Became a Phenomenon in the West

News 18  

One of the most paradoxical things about Yoga is that despite being a 5000-year-old practice with its roots in Asian countries, including India, it has gained far more popularity in the West. The professor, who is an expert on Indian religions and has published more than twenty books like the Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and …

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Why do we need to find wilderness?
5 years, 6 months ago

Why do we need to find wilderness?

BBC  

Why do we need to find wilderness? Alamy As a new book looks at one man’s journey along the Pacific Crest Trail in the US, Cameron Laux explores how writers, artists and thinkers have viewed our place in the natural world. He said: “Everything that is not in the course of nature has its disadvantages, civil society most of all.” …

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How to lose a country: The politics of nature in a time of fear
5 years, 7 months ago

How to lose a country: The politics of nature in a time of fear

ABC  

"I have lived for the last month. Every American landscape is an archive of this sort: a surveyor's grid of corn and soybeans; a former plantation plane that was first cleared by gangs of enslaved people who were marched across the land in the total mobilisation that Sven Beckert calls "war capitalism"; the Appalachian coalfields, reworked by mountaintop removal from …

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This profaned world: Re-reading Thoreau's Walden for the Anthropocene
5 years, 8 months ago

This profaned world: Re-reading Thoreau's Walden for the Anthropocene

ABC  

Henry David Thoreau's phrase, "In wildness is the preservation of the world," launched a thousand calendars, mugs, T-shirts and bumper stickers. Actually, the wilderness Thoreau is something of a truncated distortion, what Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's friend and landlord, might have called "the dwarf of himself." It was John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club and a giant publicist …

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Mystic Mantra: The greatest art
5 years, 11 months ago

Mystic Mantra: The greatest art

Deccan Chronicle  

To love is to recognise yourself in another. — Eckhart Tolle Henry Thoreau, the 19th century writer, naturalist and philosopher, believed that great art is not restricted to painting, music, sculpture and writing; instead still greater is the art that affects the quality of life of people. Thoreau makes us think of people like St. Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, Florence …

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Philosophy and autobiography: How Stanley Cavell welcomed me into philosophy
6 years ago

Philosophy and autobiography: How Stanley Cavell welcomed me into philosophy

ABC  

Stanley Cavell once asked me if I remembered what text first attracted me to his work. And of course, opera conjures up the idea of Ingrid Bergman's "cogito aria" in Gaslight, in an essay Cavell first published a few years before he wrote A Pitch of Philosophy. By the end of that same first page, Cavell was writing about philosophy's …

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In Virginia, a boy jumped off a bridge and survived – but he killed someone else
6 years ago

In Virginia, a boy jumped off a bridge and survived – but he killed someone else

The Independent  

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Reading The Game: Walden
6 years ago

Reading The Game: Walden

NPR  

Reading The Game: Walden Enlarge this image toggle caption Screenshot courtesy of USC Game Innovation Lab Screenshot courtesy of USC Game Innovation Lab For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. Sponsor Message And then in 2018, in celebration …

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