Sales Made Simple: Is attitude really everything? Sep 23, 2009
Attitude is everything or attitude equals altitude ; heck, the quotes are endless and their creators range from Henry David Thoreau to Henry Ford. We even hand out wristbands claiming that attitude is 93 percent a reference to the results of a Harvard Study declaring that achieving success is 93 percent attitude over and above the importance of information, intelligence and skill. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
Family farm meant world to Virginia Matthews, 79, of Winder Sep 20, 2009
Mr. Griffith likens the farm to Henry David Thoreau s novel Walden, in which the American author sought an objective understanding of society by isolating himself from it. I just kind of related that to what the farm meant to me, he said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
15 vivid North American road trips Sep 16, 2009
From Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost to crooner James Taylor and funky Earth, Wind & Fire, generations of American artists have been inspired by the vivid season. New England is still the holy grail of fall-foliage pilgrims. (MSNBC -- Travel)
In Concord, a bid to save tie to abolitionist days Sep 14, 2009
A later resident, Peter Hutchinson, the first black who registered to vote in Concord, was described by Henry David Thoreau as a dexterous pig-butcher. Hutchinson is buried down the road in an unmarked grave, a symbol of a legacy that deserves better, preservationists say. (Boston Globe)
What does it take to be a tour guide on the Battle Green? Aug 21, 2009
Riders also get a brief literary tour of Concord, as the bus breezes by the homes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau, as well as the Old Manse, where Nathaniel Hawthorne lived for some time. As the tour gets to Concord, it stops at North Bridge for a more in-depth lecture from the guide on the fighting between the Americans and British troops. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Beautiful lakeside resorts Aug 17, 2009
Maybe Henry David Thoreau said it best when he described lakes as so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. . (MSNBC -- Travel)
AP: Rural Maine suffers economic insult to injury Aug 17, 2009
Rural, poor and sparsely populated, the sprawling region includes the North Woods, where Henry David Thoreau drew inspiration, western Maine's mountains with its ski resorts, rolling farm fields in the north and the rugged coastline and blueberry barrens of eastern Maine. These "rim counties," as they are sometimes called, comprise six of New England's 10 worst-off counties, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index, which measures unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures at the... (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
Winding route brings student to a new life Aug 9, 2009
CHAPEL HILL -- Henry David Thoreau wrote in "Walden" that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.". By that measure, Andrew Fu is a wealthy man. (News & Observer)
Hungry Nomad bike maps steer cyclists toward fresh air, produce Aug 5, 2009
The fields at Gaining Ground, a community farm that donates produce to food pantries, are right behind Henry David Thoreau s birthplace. At the farm s headquarters, a pavilion decorated with giant papier-mache tomatoes, you can fill up a water bottle and sign up to be a volunteer - possibly on the spot. (Boston Globe)
Novel imagines Thoreau influenced deeply by a wildfire he set Jul 31, 2009
A little-explored event in the life of Henry David Thoreau assumes epic proportions in John Pipkin s wonderfully grandiose debut novel. In 1844, one year before secluding himself in a simple cabin beside Walden Pond, Thoreau - the great Transcendentalist and beloved environmentalist - accidentally started a forest fire that ravaged more than 300 acres of forest and farmland around Concord. (Boston Globe)
Get lost en route to getting found Jul 25, 2009
In reflecting about his experience living alone at Walden Pond in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau wrote that It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable, experience to be lost in the woods. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
HOT ISSUE: Should we deliberately move species? Jul 20, 2009
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- No less an authority than Henry David Thoreau compared the sensation of tramping through snow to walking in a cloudy sky upside down. A beautiful description, but there's a catch: You'd better be wearing snowshoes. (Fresno Bee -- State)
'Under God’ must remain creed Jul 12, 2009
Bret Lian wrote on Jul 11, 2009 12:01 AM:" I agree with Gene, humanity's apparent "need" for religion(or something like it) is strange and sad. As atheists or agnostics or whatever, We can quote The Founders,(who many literally despised religion and reached consensus that it has no place in America's political identity); we can point out the illogical conclusions that are reached with a belief in a god with a personality that rewards and punishes the objects of his/her creation; we can easily... (Missoulian, MT)
Live life on the wild side Jul 11, 2009
This book is inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and extols finding beauty in the ordinary. It s a photo study in simplicity, said Galie. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
Thoreau Society's Annual Gathering is under way Jul 11, 2009
Walking tours, workshops, panel discussions and a folk concert will highlight the s 68th Annual Gathering, which runs from July 9 through July 12, Henry David Thoreau s birthday. This year, the gathering has been expanded to include an entertainment component, a performance by Maine folk artist , which Thoreau Society Executive Director Michael Frederick said ties in nicely to the theme of Social Awareness: Thoreau and the Reform Movement. (Concord Journal, MA)
Knowing Our Place: Fullness of life Jul 11, 2009
This would apply to everyone anywhere in the world, but Dr. Wilson went on to emphasize the particular significance of eastern Massachusetts, not because it boasts better natural life than other places, but because we live among the locales that inspired the conservation movement, through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. I am made to love the pond and the meadow, as the wind is made to ripple the water, wrote Thoreau, for himself and for everyone whose spirit feeds on... (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest Jul 5, 2009
A teenager who had read Henry David Thoreau s Walden; or, Life in the Woods, she told her father she would like to live alone in a cabin in their woods, as Thoreau had done at Walden Pond. Charles Codere knew his daughter was strong-willed and acquiesced, though the cabin was without plumbing, her nephew, Richard H. Fleming of Chicago, recalled. (Boston Globe)
Naturalists take inventory of animal, plant species in Concord’s Estabrook Woods Jul 5, 2009
The event is held each July 4, the day Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond in 1845. About 200 people took part yesterday, said Kathi Anderson, executive director of the Walden Woods Project, an event sponsor. (Boston Globe)
Popular literature making its way onto summer reading lists west of Boston Jun 28, 2009
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift. (Boston Globe)
Teens weigh in on parcel Jun 27, 2009
Shannon Janovitz s American Literature class recently produced and performed the play, Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau about the final days that Henry David Thoreau spent alone in his cabin on Walden Pond. The production raised about $800 for the Landlocked Forest. (Burlington Union, MA)
In Chatham, an austere utopia yields to a relentless tide Jun 25, 2009
Now, their hopes for a farewell summer have been dashed near the place where author Henry David Thoreau said a man could put all of America behind him. They realize it really is past the point of no return, Keon said. (Boston Globe)
New Anthology Offers Personal Stories and Reflections on Global Warming From New and Established Writers and Photographers Jun 23, 2009
NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new generation of writers and photographers with a personal connection to global warming are taking inspiration from Henry David Thoreau and other legendary environmental authors by publishing their works in a special anthology from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Penguin Classics. The nonprofit science group and Penguin Classics selected essays and photos by 67 Americans for the new book Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global... (PR Newswire)
Students help Friends Jun 20, 2009
The philosophies of authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and their focus on protecting our natural environment reminded students of Flemming s speech and the Friends of the Landlocked Forest s cause. Teacher Shannon Janovitz suggested the class establish a project that addressed the issue, one that supported the American Literature curriculum and benefited the cause. (Burlington Union, MA)
The Horoscope of Louisa May Alcott Jun 18, 2009
Her transcendentalist neighbors were none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who were friends of the Alcott family and who opened their libraries to Alcott and her sisters. Thus Alcott received an eclectic education and from an early age discussed philosophy, religion, politics, and literature with some of the best minds of her generation. (Suite101.com)
Class of 2009 receives their diplomas -- PHOTO GALLERY Jun 16, 2009
One senior was named a Henry David Thoreau scholar. They traveled the world bringing back with to the classroom a global perspective. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
Park effort commendable Jun 16, 2009
We live more by the maxims of Henry David Thoreau: "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.". The Chetek Alert 2009. (Chetek Alert, WI)
The Perfect Staycation May 30, 2009
Henry David Thoreau wrote that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone (Jenkins, 1985, p. 492); and this is sage advice that can be applied to every aspect of human existence, including the time people have off from work during the lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer. Whether it s called a vacation or a staycation really doesn t matter at all. (Suite101.com)
The visible hand in America May 29, 2009
Henry David Thoreau, writing some years later, mused: I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least ;It finally amounts to this, which also I believe, that government is best which governs not at all. This self-portrait, however, has always been as much mythology as fact. (The Economist)
Sudbury River opened the region to settlement and early industry May 25, 2009
Henry David Thoreau canoed the river, describing its serenity in his writing. As a child in the 1930s, Ashland resident Kay Powers said the message seemed clear: The water belonged to Boston. (Framingham TAB, MA)
Ideas: New England's deep military traditions May 24, 2009
More than a century before the Vietnam War, New England elites were protesting the Mexican-American War - Henry David Thoreau even got himself tossed into jail for a night. In recent decades, New England politicians and voters have generally been more skeptical of military interventions than their Southern and Western counterparts. (Boston Globe)
Rockefeller preserve has natural appeal May 17, 2009
A resource room with oversized, Craftsman-style leather chairs contains tomes from leading nature writers such as Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and Henry David Thoreau. Although the center is open from May through October, the preserve's eight miles of hiking trails are accessible year-round. (Boston Globe)
Kids' books: from New York to nature May 16, 2009
A deep appreciation of Henry David Thoreau inspired D.B. Johnson and his wife, Linda Michelin, to create a series of picture books based on Walden. In the fifth adventure, Henry, a domesticated bear, seeks out the bird no one ever sees -- the whippoorwill -- and does so by the light of fireflies he collects in a jar. (Erie Times-News, PA)
UAS grads celebrate success May 15, 2009
Like before, Shelton quoted a favorite line from Henry David Thoreau. I have learned, Shelton quoted, that if one advances confidently in the direction of one s dream, and endeavors to live the life which one imagines, one will meet with the success unexpected in common hours. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Fishing: the cause of more drowning deaths May 15, 2009
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after," Henry David Thoreau said philosophically. On a more practical note, it is worth observing that at the start of a new fishing season, many men also go fishing and never come home. (Globe and Mail)
Cut hours, not employees May 10, 2009
Henry David Thoreau built his own 10-by-15-foot cabin at Walden Pond for $28 in materials. His furniture consisted of a table, a chair and a bed. (Yahoo News)
poets ranked by beard weight May 9, 2009
Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862)Beard type: Wandering JimTypical opus: Within the Circuit of This Plodding LifeGravity (UPI rating): 29. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 1882)Beard type: Italian False GoateeTypical opus: The Blessed DamozelGravity (UPI rating): 38. (Harper's Magazine)
Maynard boy discovers ancient artifact May 8, 2009
Whatever Marshall ends up doing, Wood said he hopes he learns more about a Native American culture that has fascinated inhabitants for generations, from the casual wanderer to the famous transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was an avid seeker of arrowheads and other artifacts who said his fascination arose because he liked his eyes to rest on the evidences of an aboriginal life which passed here a thousand years ago perchance. (Beacon Villager, MA)
A break from thebankrupt norm May 7, 2009
In 1848, the philosopher Henry David Thoreau advised those who were finding life difficult in America's two great commercial capitals of the day to strike out on a new course, to seek the freedom and independence only available deep in the nation's bountiful rural areas. "Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually... (Asia Times Online)
Help the animals, and us May 3, 2009
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it, Henry David Thoreau said. Are you a safe driver on the roads. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Media Watch- Bare necessities Apr 30, 2009
Henry David Thoreau tried to figure that out for himself more than a 150 years ago when he built and lived in a hut on the outskirts of Concord, Massachusetts. His famous two-year stint at Walden Pond is often misinterpreted as that of a misanthrope, a man who was shunning society. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
COUCH SLOUCH: Can you see ESPN covering an election? Apr 28, 2009
6:04: In his day, I've got to figure Henry David Thoreau did not follow the NFL draft. 6:13: If the Browns trade down any further, their first pick will be in the WNBA draft. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
The good old days Apr 20, 2009
On Wednesday, Earth Day will be celebrated with 19th-century recycling tips, a scavenger hunt, and a visit from Henry David Thoreau. Daily 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $20, $18 seniors, $7 ages 3-17. (Boston Globe)
Seeing Thoreau in a new light: hard work and humor Apr 19, 2009
I realized after a time that this scolding, superior frame of mind was less a New England temper than a Cambridge one, but I could not shake the idea that its author was Henry David Thoreau. This was the killjoy who called water "the only drink for a wise man" and extolled the virtues of abstaining not only from meat, but "from much food of any kind." And, because of his lofty views on other men's lives of "quiet desperation," I lumped him together with people whose family money allowed them to... (Boston Globe)
'TEA Party' tax protest event planned for Tuesday Apr 15, 2009
Collatine wrote on Apr 13, 2009 3:31 PM:" The Question - oh come on. This is in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Ghandi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. You may not agree with their message (and sometimes I roll my eyes at peaceful protesters as well), but this is a time-honored American tradition of protest, and it demeans you to simply call them names. ". BW wrote on Apr 13, 2009 4:02 PM:" Collatine, that's about all TQ does these days. He/she never has anything good to say about... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Walk a mile in Thoreau's shoes Apr 15, 2009
Henry David Thoreau said he could not preserve his health and spirits unless he spent at least four hours a day walking. I'm guessing he had to give up his day job. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
NHL Playoffs: Bylsma's success reads like fish story Apr 14, 2009
-- Henry David Thoreau. It is the contemplative aspect of angling that appeals to Dan Bylsma, so it doesn't bother him that no one can corroborate his definitive fish story. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Affordable housing sought near prison in West Concord Apr 12, 2009
After the project was stopped in order to protect the area made famous by Henry David Thoreau, the group pledged to help find a suitable site elsewhere in town for housing. This is the fourth time the organization has suggested a site. (Boston Globe)
Woods burner Apr 12, 2009
BY THE SPRING of 1844 Henry David Thoreau had accomplished almost nothing ... But there is one curious event in the life of Henry David Thoreau that has received little attention, and which may have been a formative event, influencing not only his decision to sequester himself at Walden Pond, but also the development of his environmentalist philosophy ... In "Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind," Robert D. Richardson goes so far as to suggest that the catastrophe in the Concord Woods might... (Boston Globe)
Bird Feathers Produce Color Through Structure Similar To Beer Foam Apr 6, 2009
5, 1998) Essayist Henry David Thoreau said that the bluebird carries the sky on its back. For more than a century, scientists have agreed, saying that blue feathers look blue for the same reason that the sky. (Science Daily)
Successful businesses need focus on a 'driver' Apr 5, 2009
Nineteenth-century American author Henry David Thoreau, put it well when he said, "What lies before us and what lies beyond are tiny compared to what drives and lies within us.". When you choose a "driver," it should focus on what your organization does best. (Athens Banner-Herald)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Coming of age in a modern day Walden Mar 29, 2009
Rock, who teaches writing at Portlands Reed College, takes this case as a starting point for his new novel, told in the voice of a girl whose life will be oddly blessed and blighted by a latter-day Henry David Thoreau. THE LUCKY ONES. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Seminary starts doctorate program in spirituality Mar 28, 2009
said modern-day spirituality seekers share a common pursuit with the 19th-century American transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who said: "I should not talk so much about myself, if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.". "They were drawing on Hindu and Buddhist traditions and putting that together with kind of a broad interpretation of Christianity," Holder said. (USA Today -- News)
Americans may come to cherish their forced frugality Mar 27, 2009
As Henry David Thoreau emphasized, Do not devote your life to nonessentials or the acquisition of unnecessary possessions. Simplify. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Ph.D. program explores Christian spirituality Mar 27, 2009
Arthur Holder, a Christian spirituality professor and dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, said modern-day spirituality seekers share a pursuit with the 19th-century American transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who said: "I should not talk so much about myself, if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.". "They were drawing on Hindu and Buddhist traditions and putting that together with kind of a broad interpretation of Christianity," Holder... (North County Times)
Student group tries to turn Flagler green Mar 26, 2009
One high-schooler quoted philosopher Henry David Thoreau. And the elementary school students couldn't even see over the podium. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Lexington at large: Town Meeting is the great equalizer Mar 19, 2009
As we pay tribute to Marge and Dick Battin, who personify the institution of Town Meeting, the words of Henry David Thoreau come to mind: When, in some obscure county, the farmers come together to a special town meeting to express their opinion on some object which is vexing the land, that, I think is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States. Edmund C. Grant lives and works in Lexington. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Why setting goals can backfire Mar 15, 2009
Goal-setting is one of the seven habits of highly effective people, says self-help guru Stephen Covey, and even Henry David Thoreau, the philosopher of dropping out, celebrates the work of goal setting. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them," he writes in Walden. (Boston Globe)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to keep trade group Mar 13, 2009
Among the authors it has published are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Wal do Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain. About 125 employees work for the division in New York and Boston out of a total Houghton Mifflin workforce of about 4,000. (Boston Globe)
• Carrying on Thoreau's work Mar 3, 2009
Henry David Thoreau, abolitionist, philosopher and naturalist, spent six years recording the flowering dates of 500 plant species of his native Concord, Mass. with the aim of producing a calendar based on a plant's first flowering. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Simplifying Life Mar 1, 2009
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau writes, A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone (Perkins, 1985, p. 492). He also says that human lives are frittered away by detail, and that the answer to this spiritual quandary is Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity (Perkins, 1985, p. 497). (Suite101.com)
A view of Thoreau at the Concord Museum Feb 28, 2009
In the enchanting series, Henry is a bear whose life mirrors that of Henry David Thoreau, naturalist, simple-living advocate, and author of "Walden," among other works. Like his namesake, the bear goes adventuring in the woods, builds a small cabin by Walden Pond, treks to Fitchburg, and refuses to pay his taxes, to protest slavery. (Boston Globe)
Crescendo of noise from I-285 shortens morning quiet time Feb 28, 2009
The 19th-century New England iconoclast, Henry David Thoreau, is best known for retreating to a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Mass ... I don t advocate retreating to a pond in the woods like Henry David Thoreau did. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
A February walk with Thoreau Feb 27, 2009
"You must walk like a camel," Henry David Thoreau writes, and I feel my lower lip drooping and a hunch coming into my back. This isn't what he means, of course. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
5 Things You Didnt Know: Sidebur... Feb 26, 2009
They ve also teamed with other to give people like Henry David Thoreau his unique chinstrap beard and his chin curtain. No other facial hairstyle has carried such diverse interpretations; on James Dean, they were rebellious; on hippies, they screamed slacker; on Napoleonic , they were dignified; and in the early gay club scene, they screamed free lunch boys. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Obituary: Patricia E. Mahoney, 79 Feb 25, 2009
She enjoyed many years of volunteer work as a tour guide at the Henry David Thoreau House in Concord, and the Crane Estate in Ipswich. In later years, she enjoyed her work at the Beverly Historical Society. (Acton Beacon, MA)
