Twenty years have passed since Wilderness Press published my little book of “meditations” in 2002: Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: […]
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And the Wall Came a-tumblin’ Down
Are we paying attention to The Wall? It seems that now, when we dutifully pay our taxes, we are truly […]
God and Atheists
In his eulogy for Henry Thoreau in May 1862, Emerson quotes his friend as saying: “Nothing is so much to […]
How to Get the Most Life
“The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get […]
Wisdom for Writers
“It is not easy to write in a journal what interests us at any time, because to write it is […]
Content with this World
Henry offers more rich thoughts to stir into the compost of our life here on the Home Planet. “I love […]
Silent Stones
On a walk in the rain today, after writing my column on Silence, I observed this small fall where the […]
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages […]
Something’s Bugging Me
I took this photo this afternoon as the “curiosity beetle” was ambling across my Thoreau book. Look for my column […]
African Nature
As wonderfully diverse as it is, Nature is Nature, wherever we are. the Americas, Africa, Asia, Arctic, Antarctic. . .(and […]
Resetting Our Compass
Time to re-set our compass “Something strange is happening.” So says a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England. […]
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