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 ...

In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get ...

"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 ...

The upright citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, didn't think much of young Henry David Thoreau ... Concord's flora Thoreau planned to turn his vast botanical records into a book, but he died ...

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 ...

“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 ...