The result: for a split second, you are living the experience with Thoreau as it happens.
If you need more room than that, perhaps it's time to heed Thoreau and simplify.
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Even for such a hermitical figure as Thoreau, idea work was not a solitary activity.
Thoreau died in 1862 at age 44 without receiving any acclaim for his writing and its global influence.
Contrary to legend, what Thoreau can teach us is that the hunt for ideas is a contact sport.
The Concord Museum contains an enormous collection of Henry David Thoreau artefacts.
Thoreau would leave on boat excursions from behind the house, and Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau skated on it when it froze.
The Colonial Inn, a hotel since 1889, is the closest you can get to staying at or eating where Thoreau did.
For those in search of great ideas, the life and habits of Thoreau are instructive, but not for the reasons many suppose.
The letter relative to Fuller, written by Emerson, included a list of the items that Thoreau found as he was surveying the wreckage.
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Thoreau also built his cabin on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who enjoyed greater literary and worldly success in their day.
You may not have realized that Thoreau was a prolific blogger.
The myth surrounding Thoreau is that he scaled the heights of literary productivity by retreating into the wilderness, away from all manner of human contact.
Using his published journals, the online editor, a fellow lover of Thoreau, posts his entry corresponding to the same day a century and a half ago.
That night Baby Stewie on Fox's The Family Guy admonished viewers who in a mock poll failed to attribute a famous quote to Henry David Thoreau.
Fans and followers of one of America's great thinkers, Henry David Thoreau, have been fighting for decades to protect the forest in Massachusetts where he found inspiration.
In one sense, McCandless was no different than Thoreau at Walden Pond, or Huck Finn in his raft on the Mississippi, or Jack Kerouac on the road.
He moved in on the day of his 1842 wedding to Sophia, and as a wedding gift, Emerson hired Thoreau to create a vegetable garden for the couple.
She admits she is no Thoreau scholar and her large home, complete with a three-car garage, is in part of Walden Woods, just like Thoreau's famous cabin was.
Thoreau was an early conservationist, wilderness lover and outdoor-recreation advocate.
As it happens, we were greeted with a quote from Thoreau, making us wonder what the naturalist might have thought about these newfangled reading devices edging out old-fashioned books.
People harken back to some golden age before the industrial revolution, oblivious to the fact that people died from things like tuberculosis (Henry David Thoreau) and tetanus (his brother).
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More to the point, Thoreau thrived on conversations with all kinds of people, especially during his excursions into town and at the cabin itself, where he frequently welcomed visitors.
Jerry Sandusky's letter expanded on the rambling, 15-minute courtroom soliloquy that touched on everything from the writer Henry David Thoreau to "special inmate friends" to wet kisses from dogs.
Local officials proposed building a pair of lighted Astroturf athletic fields there, which horrifies Thoreau devotees, who heard about the plan from its loudest opponent, high school neighbor Patty Hecht(ph).
Even the names are seductive: Gull, Spectacle, Duck, Turtle, Herring, Round, Sough, Snow, Higgins, Dyer, Great, many of which were admired by Henry David Thoreau, who wrote of them in Cape Cod.
What is not clear is whether there will be enough left to satisfy the loggers, the deer-hunters, the hikers, the environmentalists and those who simply wish to see America as Thoreau saw it.
Even at its most accessible, on the reggae-tinged "Cockermouth, " it remains tantalizingly elusive after all, how many songs can weave together a ramble through Wordsworth country, with mentions of The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and naturalist Henry David Thoreau?
Eager to make money and produce the next best thing, we're no doubt aware that knowing the Supreme Court justices and obscure Thoreau quotes might make us seem intelligent, but this knowledge won't help us make payroll or write the next innovative software application.
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