There is still time to register for "Climate Change: What Would Thoreau Say?" on September 14th at 7:00 pm! Henry David Thoreau was an astute observer of the natural world and kept careful records in his journal. Richard Primack at Boston University has compared Thoreau’s observations to those current in Walden Woods. Scientist Bill Moomaw […]
About the event: Veteran environmental writer Douglas Chadwick will present ideas from his most recent book "Four Fifths A Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All". He will explore the interconnectedness of nature, advocating that the path toward conservation begins with how we see our place in the world. Answering […]
After three visits to Cape Cod from 1849-1855, Thoreau wrote: “I did not see why I might not make a book on Cape Cod, as well as my neighbor on ‘Human Culture.’ It is but another name for the same thing, and hardly a sandier phase of it.” Reading Circle participants will read “The Wellfleet […]
Join us for a reading, presentation, and Q&A with Lawrence Buell about his forthcoming book "Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently". About Lawrence Buell: Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. Considered one of the founders of the ecocriticism movement, he has written and lectured worldwide on Transcendentalism, American […]
Join The Walden Woods Project on Thursday, November 16th, from 7:30 - 8:30 pm, for a virtual event, "Bears of the East: Kilham Bear Center & Black Bear Behavior"! Ben Kilham, from Kilham Bear Center, NH, will present his firsthand experience raising cubs and observing black bears. The presentation is illustrated with in-the-field photos. Ben […]
About the event: Ed Begley Jr. will join The Walden Woods Project’s Executive Director, Kathi Anderson, in conversation about this new book "To the Temple of Tranquility…And Step On It!: A Memoir". An audience Q&A will follow the conversation. About the book: Ed Begley Jr. is known equally for his prolific film and television career […]
Where: deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum About the event: Explore the legacy of Thoreau and his iconic cabin with Jeffrey Cramer, Curator of Collections at The Walden Woods Project, and Sarah Montross, deCordova’s Chief Curator. They will discuss the new installation at deCordova, “Huff and a Puff” by Hugh Hayden. Texas-born and New York-based artist […]
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 21 June 1852 Over two hundred years ago, John Keats famously declared that “Beauty is Truth, and Truth Beauty.” When contemporary scientists and mathematicians refer to a theory as beautiful, they associate beauty with concision and streamlined elegance. Yet for as long […]
About the event: “A poem is one undivided, unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature,” Thoreau wrote in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. “Much verse,” he said, “fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by […]
