The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here’s what you get when you combine the wisdom of Aristotle and Henry David Thoreau. You’ve heard the idiom, “nature abhors a vacuum,” right? So what does that mean, how does it apply to the current state of our democracy, and why am I…
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Thoreau’s Realometer: Sessions is a Goner — Trump Should Go Too
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oh how things have changed since Henry David Thoreau’s 1854, when he first published Walden. How things have changed since 1896, when Adolph Ochs purchased and began transforming the New…
An Update on Thoreau’s Necessities of Life
“The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden By Glynn…
Contemplating the State of Things on Thoreau’s 200th Birthday
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â Henry David Thoreau is one of the founding fathers of American activism and civil rights as well as science and environmental writing. Clearly my own life and career are inspired by my own reading of Thoreau. I mean I got rid of most of my worldly possessions about…