The cabin on Walden Pond, the night in jail for tax evasion, the constant scribbling in journals—it all seemed like a waste of a perfectly good Harvard education. Even more mysterious was his ...

"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" takes a journey back in time to the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. Taken from actual writings and conversations ...

the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation. Annually, over a half-million people pay homage to the storied ...

Become a hermit — a plan akin to Henry David Thoreau’s hermetic years by Walden Pond — used to hold a prominent place on my […] ...

During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...

Henry David Thoreau spent two years in a cabin beside Walden Pond, learning to "simplify, simplify," slow down and appreciate nature. Sheena Jeffers does much the same in "Living Tidal," her ...