It's not unusual for the words of influencers to gain popularity. But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he's credited with introducing, ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One summer evening, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau threw a party—a melon party, to be precise, a ...

Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work ...

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 ...

Henry David Thoreau: A Life. By Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press; 613 pages; $35 and £26.50. ON AN April night in 1844, a distraught Henry David Thoreau walked through the blackened ...

Henry David Thoreau is often celebrated as the man who turned his back on society, returning to nature to become a citizen of the wilderness. Thoreau, in this view, becomes a hermit who shuns his ...

The author of The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years, Robert M. Thorson, has an unexpected résumé for a Thoreau scholar. He is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut. Thorson ...

Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls. The University of Chicago Press. 640 pages. $35. Given his role as the patron saint of environmentalism, it seems fitting that Henry David Thoreau’s ...

Today we are in conversation with Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in ...

As someone who tramps about Henry David Thoreau’s Concord for many miles each year, I find myself pulled more toward the lesser-known forests where the man himself walked, rather than Walden Pond, ...

In a large crowd that celebrated the 200th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, none had a closer connection to the late Concord author than Joseph Wheeler. The 91-year-old Wheeler was born in ...