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5 days ago · His simple but emotional poems on behalf of abolition were collected in such volumes as Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question… (1837), Voices of Freedom (1846), and Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1850).
4 days ago · Sometime in March of 1845, Henry David Thoreau's friend the poet Ellery Channing famously advised him, "Go out upon that, build yourself a hut, & there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no other alternative, no other hope for you." Few have given anyone better advice.
1 day ago · Friendship by Henry David Thoreau. I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to me a world, Sole meat and sweetest drink, And close connecting link Tween heaven and earth. I only know it is, not how or why, My greatest happiness; However hard I try, Not if I were to die, Can I explain. I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
4 days ago · Henry David Thoreau, (1817 - 1862) American Author. Walden. Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
4 days ago · On July 4th, 1845 essayist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau moved at the age of twenty-eight to the northern shore of Walden Pond, south of the village of Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau built a small cabin and modestly lived in semi-isolation there for two years, writing his masterwork, Walden; or Life in the Woods.
3 days ago · The dependence of cli-fi (and the environmental activism that inspires it) on capitalist visions of social progress has also received scrutiny. Some of these habits of representation have been inherited from literary predecessors such as Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Ernest Callenbach, and J. G. Ballard.
5 days ago · Henry David Thoreau — ‘Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, ...
