Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at ...

A tip leads to a waterfront condominium complex where billionaire U.S. defense contractors and Henry David Thoreau, Author, Steve Lowe, Editor, Robert Clarke Sabuda, Illustrator Philomel Books $14 ...

Like a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, writer and self-reliance guru Tamara Dean set out early in this century to make a home ...

In her debut novel, Swedish pop star Annika Norlin spins a tale about a woman who, like Thoreau, seeks a simple life away ...

An Observer’s Notebook is the third in the series after The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal and The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s ...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

“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 ...