"In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," on view at the Gregg Museum through January, takes visitors on a walk around Walden Pond.

Today we are in conversation with Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in ...

Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...

Henry David Thoreau is often celebrated as the man who turned his back on society, returning to nature to become a citizen of the wilderness. Thoreau, in this view, becomes a hermit who shuns his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. Henry David Thoreau was a supremely efficient tax protester. Measured in terms of ...

Henry David Thoreau, the 19th-century writer, philosopher, and naturalist, is probably best known for having holed up in a cabin by Walden Pond to escape the pressures of the commercial and material ...

Henry David Thoreau was a prolific American writer and naturalist. What we might consider “stunt journalism” today, Thoreau spent more than two years living alone in the woods near Walden Pond in ...

Robert D. Richardson was well into his college teaching career and a continent away from his Massachusetts boyhood when he was called home, creatively speaking. During a prestigious fellowship at the ...

Stewarding over 1,000 acres of land in Barnstable, the Barnstable Land Trust works to conserve some of the Cape's illustrious landscape. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the trust will host a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Described by a contemporary as “the apostle of individuality in an age of association and compromise,” author Henry ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. By Alex Vadukul and Tony Luong In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on ...