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Henry David Thoreau impersonator comes to Barnstable this weekend. Why?
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEditor's note: This story was changed to correct the readathon hours (they are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)...
Art Beat: 'Cultures of Seaweed' at Whaling Museum taps into our collective fascination
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe New Bedford Whaling Museum has borrowed a sentence fragment from Henry David Thoreau’s “Cape...
The Best Adventure Advice We’ve Ever Gotten
Trail Runner via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe great naturalist-poet Henry David Thoreau called such ways of being in the world as living out "lives of quiet desperation." Too often it's the...
Top Five: Ways to Spark Change
Yahoo Now· 1 year agoBBG List Spark Change The term “civil disobedience” was popularized by Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay by the same name. Using only his words to protest...
Letters to the editor: Columnist's love of nature shows in his work
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPete Waters' writings on earth's beauty comes at the right time To the editor: Kudos to...
Tiny Houses Mean Towering Hassles In Getting A Mortgage
Benzinga via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoAmerica’s obsession with tiny homes dates to 1945 when Henry David Thoreau built a one-room cabin on...
Pelotons and pets, new homes and new jobs: We regretted a lot this year
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoHenry David Thoreau once advised to “make the most of your regrets,” but Americans seem to be...
Nature writer encourages close observation | DON NOBLE
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHenry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” while it has chapters on “Economy “ and “Reading,” is organized...
Gardening for You: A national day for pumpkins
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGardeners can appreciate this quote from Henry David Thoreau: “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet...
Getting Ready: 'Rethinking Climate Action' to usher change by working together
Gannett via AOL· 4 months agoIn July 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay a delinquent poll...
