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Hace 10 horas · Living in the woods has turned Richard into a kind of junkie Henry David Thoreau. He chops down trees for firewood and enjoys cooking for other homeless people over a campfire. He’s also become an expert of sorts on wildlife in the area. He talks about being chased in the woods one night by a large animal with bright orange eyes.
Hace 2 horas · Remnants of Dunbar’s diary were discovered in 1908 by E. Harlowe Russel, a biographer of Dunbar’s grandson, Henry David Thoreau. The diary revealed that Dunbar would go on to have a happy life, first as a minister and then a lawyer.
Hace 10 horas · “Walden, ou a vida nos bosques” de Henry David Thoreau é uma das grandes referências deste Caminhar, cuja época é fortemente marcada pelo nascimento do capitalismo. O autor norte-americano pressentia que o, então, emergente capitalismo seria um perigo para a Natureza.
Hace 10 horas · Ralph Waldo Emerson famously declared that "[w]hoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" – a point of view developed at length in both the life and work of Henry David Thoreau. Equally memorable and influential on Walt Whitman is Emerson's idea that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Hace 10 horas · An author, critic, and naturalist, he began his career in New York City, where he was a professor at Columbia and theater critic for The Nation, and where he wrote The Modern Temper (challenging the then-fashionable notions of scientific progress and optimism), biographies of Samuel Johnson and Henry David Thoreau, and (inspired by Thoreau) The Twelve Seasons, Krutch’s first nature book.
Hace 10 horas · In the nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau went to jail for his refusal to pay a tax that supported the Mexican-American War. As the story has been told, Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him and asked “Why are you here?” to which Thoreau answered, “Why are you not here?”
Hace 10 horas · She spent her childhood on a farm which was largely self-sufficient, guided by her mother in observing different aspects of nature, and getting some formal education in a single teacher rural schoolhouse. A voracious reader, she grew up with the influence of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau.
