How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

This month, two hundred years ago, Henry David Thoreau made his way into the world. Thus it seemed like a good time to revisit his thorny classic, which filled me with such contradictory feelings the first time around.

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تارو که از ستایندگان بزرگ فرهنگ شرق و ایران بود باور داشت که با سعدی در زیر پوستی واحد زندگی می کند. او در خاطرات خویش در هشتم جولای 1852 نوشته است: «اندیشه از ورای پهناورترین شکاف های زمانی با احساسی از برادری که خطایی در آن نیست به اندیشه درود می فرستد. برای مثال من می دانم که سعدی زمانی اندیشه ا

Walden is not for everyone. This is why it is so accurately and justifiably cherished by its admirers, and so ridiculously and criminally misunderstood by its detractors. The critics of Walden levy ad hominem after ad hominem against Thoreau, as if the utmost specifics of his experience detract from

I often credit this book with my philosophical awakening. Thoreau presents a criticism of modern life, technology, economy, and wasteful culture from the perspective of one who has simplified his life and experienced something much closer to real independence than any other modern man. Some have cri

Henry David Thoreau is best known as an American writer and transcendentalist who wanted first-hand to experience intuitively and understand profoundly the rapport between man and nature. In a sense Thoreau is Adam after the Fall living East of Eden as a bachelor in a humble cabin built beside Walde

The tale of a man who dared to live in his parents backyard and eat dinner with them, and then lived to write about it. Compelling.