A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, they say. How true, how true, especially when it comes to reducing the wisdom of brilliant, complex minds to their pithiest quotes. In a recent […]
Walden: How many of you have actually read it?
#16: Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walden is one of those books everyone’s heard of, but I frequently wonder how many people have actually read it. It is, of course, the very stuff […]
Experiencing the Maine woods with Thoreau
#6: The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1864) Katahdin, some twenty miles to my west, looks like a sketch done in chalk, set against the winter-gray sky. Its ever-present clouds hover […]
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