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4 days ago · Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the transcendentalist movement. His most well known work is Walden.
2 days ago · Writer Henry David Thoreau summed up the perceived difference in priorities between America and Europe as “Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente frux” — “from the east light; from the west fruit”.
4 days ago · Henry David Thoreau — ‘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...
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2 days ago · Thoreau retreated to the woods to live deliberately, seeking a life stripped of the unnecessary distractions of society. His call to "simplify, simplify 2 " resonates deeply with me today, as I seek a life where the essential—the connection to nature, to self, to others—isn’t lost in the complexity of modern life.
3 days ago · Henry David Thoreau lived two years in a small log cabin that he had built with his own hands. He had a Harvard degree but survived on odd jobs and the vegetables he grew himself.
4 days ago · The context that life presents on both the relative and absolute planes are the equalizers we all face, what we do and especially what we do not do. After reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in my teenage years, I was unable to continue reading after coming across the line, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation.”
4 days ago · Henry David Thoreau Borobudur Temple “Native Modern Art: From a Cardboard Box to the Met” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, July 2024) Siena: The Rise of Painting, exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024 Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard (Columbia University Press, 2024)
