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 NPR (blog) | Henry David Thoreau Comes To The Aid Of Climate Science NPR (blog) On Earth Day 2013, I'd like to draw your notice to a fantastic essay by Andrea Wulf in The New York Times Book Review. Wulf explains how information recorded by Henry David Thoreau in his journals is now informing modern climate-change research. |
 New York Daily News | Seeds of NY Rangers coach John Tortorella's no-nonsense, determined style ... New York Daily News But if Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott and his daughter, Louisa May, had sat in a room with a microphone and a podium, it's a good bet they wouldn't have cracked the conundrum of Concord's future son, ... |
Angels must have applauded Creator on earth's beauty Cherokee Tribune The serenity bestowed by the Creator is summarized by the words of the transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau: “I found myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men...” King David, the psalmist ... |
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor) ConcertoNet Twenty-eight hours preceding this Philadelphia Orchestra concert, I had made a pilgrimage to Henry Thoreau's Walden Pond, slowly circling the tranquil body of water over two miles of easy forest trails. So mellow, gentle and hallowed was this ... |
Facebook: New and Improved One Year Later TheStreet.com Its three-month average daily volume has grown to over 38 million shares and it trades at a forward (one-year) PE of 33. But today Facebook has a new focus and is on track for "...a success unexpected in common hours," as Henry David Thoreau expressed it. |
 New York Times (blog) | Nathaniel Hawthorne's Funny Civil War New York Times (blog) But in Concord, where Hawthorne moved in 1860 after spending seven years abroad, he found himself out of step with his old friends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau (who died in May 1862), as well as others of his neighbors. He was an ... |
 New York Times (blog) | Telling It Like It Is New York Times (blog) Thoreau said: “Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. .... I told it with tales like J. G. Ballard's “Running Wild” and Henry James's “Turn of the Screw” in mind, and with a nod to genre films: “Rosemary's Baby,” “Repulsion,” “The ... |
Skiing in Maine: Books provide thrills for those unable to play Press Herald In the new hiker's guide "In High Places With Henry David Thoreau," Hallowell's John Gibson traces the routes that the famous naturalist followed in the 19th century. The guide combines excerpts from Thoreau's writing with precise directions and maps, ... |
 New Yorker (blog) | Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Cell-Phone Smashing of 2013 New Yorker (blog) He is still waiting to see if she'll press charges; he told Gothamist, “I don't want to suggest I'm Henry David Thoreau protesting the Mexican-American War, but I'll do a day in jail if I have to.” And you thought “War and Peace” was eventful! And so ... |
Simplicity in an age of technology Biddeford Journal Tribune Henry David Thoreau once said, “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!” I'm not sure how seriously I should take a man who communed with squirrels and had a beard that looked like their mutated cousin; but then, his ... |