The writer went to Walden to reorient his world, so that the woods, rather than the town, centered his spiritual map.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau, Prophet of the Anthropocene
I was halfway through Laura Dassow Walls’s new biography of Henry David Thoreau when my partner and I celebrated his birthday on our favorite stretch of ...
Darwin’s Early Adopters
During the icy winter of 1860, Franklin Sanborn preferred to stay indoors. The bad weather in Concord, Massachusetts, was cause enough, but the young political activist had another reason: he feared ...