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Documenting a Life in the Woods

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 04.15.2013 | Green
Read More: Hermit, Tools, Self-Sustaining, Thoreau, Yurt, Anthropology, Documentary Film, Ethnography, Forests, Green News
Mary J. Loftus

Ever wonder what it would be like to live deep in a forest for 50 years? Me either. But that's exactly what Harvard graduate Bill Coperthwaite has done, living a self-sustaining life in a three-story yurt in the Maine woods for more than five decades, attracting a near-cult status and fan following.

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4 Lessons From Spring

William Horden | Posted 04.28.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Rilke, Poetry, Spring, Immortality, Starting Over, Thoreau, Issa, Zen, Neruda, Humaneness, Hope, Cherry Blossoms, Rebirth, Happiness, Change, Spirit, Healthy Living News
William Horden

Every change of season evokes emotions, but spring, charging out of winter's cold dark with renewed life and brighter days, seems our most beloved. New hopes bloom like flowers springing back from roots we feared lost to numbing ice.

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How to Be Important After Graduation

Carl Safina | Posted 08.01.2012 | College
Read More: Emerson, Success, Commencement, Chase Money, Thoreau, Graduation, Service, Sex, Convocation, Winston Churchill, Patience, Failure, Curiosity, Compassion, Commencement Speech, Carl Safina Commencement Speech, Becoming-Fearless, College News
Carl Safina

Never chase money. You are not the product of four billion years of evolution just so you can own a cluttered garage. Make yourself someone rare and valuable -- then instead of chasing money, you'll find money chasing you

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Can We 'Imagine' Ourselves Into A New Reality?

Peter Baksa | Posted 07.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Thoreau, Law of Attraction, Max Planck, Intention, Albert Einstein, Carlos Castaneda, C.G. Jung, Reach for Your Dreams, Manifesting, Achieve Dreams, Achieve Your Dreams, Becoming Fearless, Manifest, Intensions, Becoming-Fearless, Healthy Living News
Peter Baksa

Dreams and imagination are the paints, the colors, used to create the portrait we call life. Choose them wisely. We do this by observing and adjusting our thoughts to align with our intention.

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WATCH: We the Tiny House People: Documentary Trailer

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 06.19.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Entertainment, Shelter, Downsizing, Documentary Trailer, Small House, Christian Schallert, Microhome, Tiny Apartment, Movies, Jay Shafer, Small Space, Small Home, Small House Movement, Lego Apartment, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Moviefone, Simplicity, Tiny Home, Thoreau, Tiny House People Documentary, Video, Entertainment News
Kirsten Dirksen

I continue to discover people who aren't even aware of this movement: iving in shipping containers, houseboats, tool sheds, former pigeon coops and treehouses. These stripped-down shelters reveal for us the essence of home.

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To See the Animals: Our Safari to Tanzania, Part 9, the Last Installment

Ken White | Posted 05.29.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Giraffe, Thoreau, Africa, Tanzania, Wildness, Safari, Safaris, Tanzania Safari, San Francisco News
Ken White

We're happy to go home. We know that we have a lot to go back to, but we're also very much wanting to stay.

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A Complete Life: Miss Fuller by April Bernard

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.27.2012 | Books
Read More: Misogyny, Emerson, Miss Fuller, April Bernard, Thoreau, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Books, Transcendentalists, Feminism, Nineteenth Century, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In Miss Fuller, April Bernard takes a speculative scalpel to the life of Margaret Fuller, offering a narrative of her experiences that shines a harsh and unbecoming light on the male transcendentalists.

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The Hunt for Happiness

Charissa Newkirk | Posted 02.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Teen Role Models, Steve Jobs, Thoreau, Teen Happiness, Teen News, Teen Opinion, Home News
Charissa Newkirk

My first thoughts about my own happiness were immature: happiness is having a boyfriend, being pretty, having friends, etc. But I stopped myself, and pictured what I want my life to look like in 20 years.

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Saki Knafo

Cajun Country Prepares For The Mississippi Flood

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Mississippi River, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Flooding, Flood, Morganza Spillway, Atchafalaya, Butte Larose, Morgan City, Mississippi Flood, Morganza, Thoreau, Delahoussaye, Green News

"They say the water is coming," Jim Delahoussaye wrote on his blog early this week. "They have exploded the levees in Missouri to save Cairo from drow...

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Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now

Hugh Rawson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Huckleberry Finn, Language, Mark Twain, Censorship, Tom Sawyer, Joseph Conrad, Des Moines, N-Word, Boston Daily Globe, Kinnan Rawlings, Hawthornw, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Emerson, Thoreau, Slave, Injun, Books News
Hugh Rawson

The text of Huckleberry Finn includes more than two hundred instances of the controversial word. But this doesn't say very much about the author himself.

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The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Thoreau, Eco-System, Mega-Corporations, Egotism, Hedonism, Health Care, Agnosticism, Cubism, Biomimicry, Mother Nature, Graphic Aphorisms, Egalitarianism, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sexism, Urban Planning, Snake Oil Salesmen, Holistic, Mies Van Der Rohe, Rachel Carson, Post-Modernism, Childhood Mortality, Self-Sustaining, Tim Brown, Efficacy, The Silent Spring, Bio-Diversity, Bauhaus School, Greenwashing, Humanitarianism, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Humanism, Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, Egoism, Thudism, Green News
Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

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Our Blackberries, I-Phones, Droids And Souls

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: I-Phone, Pace of Life, Digital Media, Blackberry, Rest, Philosophy, Sabbath, Peace, Happiness, Joy, Ring Tone, Living With Meaning, Digital, Philosophy of Life, Satisfaction, Spiritual Living, Droid, Contentment, Thoreau, Seneca, Twitter, Facebook, I-Pad, Plato, Shakespeare, Cell Phones, Healthy Living News
Tom Morris

Is that screen and keyboard often in your hand the greatest personal and professional tool ever, or is it the devil's device, insidiously sucking the time out of your life and the life out of your soul?

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Off The Grid: 8 Books On Living Outside The System

Los Angeles Times | Susan Salter Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Electricity, Off the Grid, Books, Environmentalism, Conservation, Peter Stark, Transcendentalists, Escapism, Reading, Utopia, Thoreau, Walden, Books News

Although books about carving out your own piece of the pie have been written ever since the Transcendentalists took issue with the direction that Amer...

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An Academic Outpost of Heaven

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Philosophy, Homer, Chapel Hill, Thoreau, Conversation, Morehead-Cain Foundation, Myth, Wendell Berry, Education, Humanities, Chaucer, Plato, The University of North Carolina, Yale University, The Past, University of the South, Deep-Conversation, University of Notre Dame, C.P. Snow, Sewanee, The Two Cultures, Home News
Tom Morris

There's a particular alternate reality experience that I highly recommend. It happens to take place at an academic outpost of heaven. Forty five minu...

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The View From the Maine Woods

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Maine Woods, Kandahar, War Dead, Thoreau, Tyler Hicks, Afghanistan, c.j. Chivers, Bagram, Marja, Home News
Nick Mills

On a fishing trip in the Maine woods one has the time and space, the solitude and quietude, to contemplate the world "as deliberately as Nature, and n...

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Thoreau's Walden Pond Shows Effects Of Global Warming, Invasive Species On Area Today

Scientific American | John Platt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau, Invasive Species, Walden Pond Plants, Climate Change, Walden Pond Extinction, Thoreau, Global Warming, Green News

Henry David Thoreau famously catalogued the plants around Walden Pond more than 150 years ago, and the information he gathered then is helping to illu...

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Suketu Mehta: Bombay's Biographer

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Thoreau, Indian Writers, Cities, Suketu Mehta, Bombay, Gandhi, Balzac, Bhagavad Gita, Authors, Martin Luther King Jr., India, Author Interviews, Bollywood, Books, Mumbai, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Suketu Mehta's masterwork, Maximum City, did for Bombay what the immortals Dickens and Balzac did for London and Paris.

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What Jesus And The Dalai Lama Would Say To Tiger Woods And Mike Huckabee

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dalai Lama, Cop Killings in Greater Seattle, Mike Huckabee, The Three Steps, Author, Featured Contributor, Jesus, President Obama, Be the Change, Maurice Clemmons, Jungian Analyst, Mary Oliver, The 21 Day Challenge, The Inner Life, Thoreau, Healthy Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.

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Carping

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Blogs, Time, Time Warner, Media, Thoreau, Recession, Media Maneuvers, Cheapskate, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting tired of the media telling me what I need and don't need. Time's Cheapskate blog is just the latest manifestation of this trend

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Why You Can't Handle the Truth

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Thoreau Quotes, Wisdom, Thoreau, Self-Awareness, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

We have so many dimensions to 'who we are' that it takes more than one lifetime to discover them (by that I mean that our children, grandchildren, etc...

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