What’s your relationship to nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. Now, a walking play is ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
A FEW undated notes from Emerson to Thoreau may be of the years between 1843 and 1847, but I am inclined to place them as late as the latter year. Here is the only one which will be cited, and that to ...
So goes a story about the Transcendentalists and my world. Reading Thoreau signaled, for me, the kind of intellectual loftiness I desperately longed for as a child of the uncultured American suburbs.
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
LINCOLN - The deep and affirming bond between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson comes alive once again in “Solid Seasons,” Jeffrey S. Cramer's revelatory new book about New England's most ...
LINCOLN, Mass. — The deep and affirming bond between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson comes alive once again in "Solid Seasons," Jeffrey S. Cramer's revelatory new book about New England's ...
Thoreau is introduced to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the radical ideas of transcendentalism. After graduating from Harvard Divinity School, Henry David Thoreau is introduced to an electrifying new social ...
Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...