Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'thoreau'
July 8, 2008
In his ecological writing, Henry David Thoreau took inspiration from the places in which he found himself. Always open to his environment, he nonetheless kept coming back to himself, meaning that his writing projects often overlapped with one another. While Walden is the most famous of these projects, he also kept journals of his frequent trips through Canada, Cape Cod, and Maine. These works are certainly less familiar than Walden, in part due to circumstances......
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Henry David Thoreau Photographs by Scot Miller Illustrating Thoreau's Cape Cod: A Photographer's Story Video Presentation & Lecture 6:00 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History Free and open to the public Details Henry David Thoreau is often considered Concord's curmudgeon, but he also conceded, "Cape Cod's cool..." Readers love his meditations on life and nature while living as an ascetic near Walden Pond, but Thoreau also traveled around New England and loosened up a......
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