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    • 23 Ratings
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    Siberia in the City

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 12:36PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: arachnophobia, contemporary french literature, a plot thwarted, what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander, city life, nature, solitude, philosophy, thoreau, musings, walden, sylvain tesson, books

    • 0 Ratings
    • 211 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Thanksgiving 2011: Some Thoughts

    NOVEMBER 24, 2011 1:58PM

    By Alex S. Johnson


    Topics: spirituality, religion, war, peace, john winthrop, plymouth colony, thanksgiving 2011, thoreau, emerson

    • 3 Ratings
    • 471 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    A WALK IN THE WOODS

    NOVEMBER 7, 2011 11:06AM

    By Pam Malone


    Topics: waterfall, spirituality, nature, birds, woods, trees, thoreau, poetry, photography, environment

    • 0 Ratings
    • 191 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Thoreau in a box in a box under mattresses

    JULY 28, 2011 2:31PM

    By View From The Lanai


    Topics: hawaii, moving, environmentalism, carbon footprint, books, literature, posthumanism, derrida, thoreau

    • Editor's Pick
    • 54 Ratings
    • 1622 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    Being Average

    JULY 5, 2011 8:59AM

    By Jerry DeNuccio


    Topics: george eliot, melville, thoreau, mode, median, mean, average

    • 15 Ratings
    • 541 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Rehearsing a MountainDance

    MAY 16, 2011 8:18AM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: thoreau, emerson, monadnock angel, thayer, dance, mt. monadnock, mount monadnock, new hampshire, environment, environmental education, dianne eno, fusion danceworks, keene nh, dance process, rehearsal, coyoteoldstyle, open+call, photography, science

    • 19 Ratings
    • 483 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    The Haircut

    FEBRUARY 28, 2011 11:31AM

    By Jerry DeNuccio


    Topics: thoreau, simplicity, vanity, haircuts

    • 2 Ratings
    • 852 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Was Thoreau A Fraud?

    FEBRUARY 10, 2011 10:51AM

    By Paul Nevins


    Topics: thoreau, emerson, walden, new england mind, arts, books, literature, belief/religion, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 137 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    In Dreams Awake

    DECEMBER 30, 2010 6:02PM

    By Marissa Mullins


    Topics: thoreau, becoming, love, lust, subconscious, dreams, truth

    • 3 Ratings
    • 489 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Civil Disobedience 150 years later

    OCTOBER 7, 2010 9:31AM

    By john walker


    Topics: civil disobedience, thoreau, self-reliance, sustainability, subversive, i knew henry david thoreau and you're no henry david thoreau

    • 1 Ratings
    • 800 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Walden Redux

    AUGUST 10, 2010 11:22AM

    By moviegeekjn


    Topics: books, thoreau, walden, family

    • 5 Ratings
    • 255 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    DO NOT READ THIS, UNLESS...you are a "watcher"

    JULY 20, 2010 4:24PM

    By Janelle Tapscott


    Topics: mississippi, thoreau, walden

    • 11 Ratings
    • 844 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    A View Into the Woods Renewing

    JUNE 8, 2010 5:17AM

    By Dr. Susanne Freeborn


    Topics: god is all there is, science, politics, environment, i saw a huge young buck standing in the meadow recently- then he chewed my roses, flora and fauna, toad lake, thoreau, renewal, deforestation, change, living a good life no matter what others do

    • 1 Ratings
    • 530 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Spiritual or Material: Teach Your Grandmother Egg Suction

    APRIL 19, 2010 2:42PM

    By Wallace Kaufman


    Topics: tibetan spiritualism, robert frost, mass production, exceptionalism, buddhism, thoreau

    • 1 Ratings
    • 348 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Kick the Bucket Lists

    JANUARY 24, 2010 2:38PM

    By Prof T-Matt


    Topics: thoreau, waterboy, adam sandler, open call, facebook, bucket lists, midlife crisis, aging

    • 2 Ratings
    • 434 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Money is Time

    JANUARY 8, 2010 9:54AM

    By Harper Peterson


    Topics: time, money, saving, economics, economy, thoreau, retirement, books, politics, humor, news

    • 0 Ratings
    • 321 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Andre Braugher: I said Goddamn!

    DECEMBER 14, 2009 2:19PM

    By D.B. Hart


    Topics: open call, crush, wish, high caliber, thoreau, pembleton, andre braugher, criticism, tv

    • 36 Ratings
    • 1628 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    Thoreau, Blind Owl and The Bear

    OCTOBER 21, 2009 1:39PM

    By Chuck A. Stetson


    Topics: open call, music, canned heat, alan wilson, bob hite, thoreau, walden pond, memory, going up the country, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 270 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    "Is Anybody Home?" Cried the Traveler

    JULY 20, 2009 4:03AM

    By Wallace Kaufman


    Topics: auden, chimps and humans, frost, in wildness is the preservation of the world, loneliness, thoreau

    • 1 Ratings
    • 339 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    TO EMPHASIZE OR NOT

    JUNE 5, 2009 5:07PM

    By Wallace Kaufman


    Topics: bill clinton, empathy, geithner, hilda solis, jefferson, obama, paperwork reduction act, shaun donovan, thoreau, vilsack, politics

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