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"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something ..." -- Henry David Thoreau. One person could not possibly take on the task of spending time with all the children of the surrounding communities who could...
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have a seat all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Henry David Thoreau penned those lines associating the pumpkin with the joys of simple country living in his book titled "Walden...
...RED WING (AP) -- They travel from Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin to scale the limestone cliffs of the bluff that Henry David Thoreau once traversed. They're rock climbers, and those in the know regularly espouse the virtues of the sleeping giant...
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have a seat all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Henry David Thoreau penned those lines in "Walden." While many people may not be familiar with the writings of Thoreau, nearly everyone...
...be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live." -- Henry David Thoreau Here we stand, ready to celebrate the end of a journey and on the brink of a new beginning. At this transition...
...Southwest Minnesota State University, will focus on short works by William Wordsworth, Minnesotan Sigurd Olson, Henry David Thoreau, Gerard Manley Hopkins and lesser-known contemporary writers, including former students. The class, sponsored...
...the options on my cell phone. Yet I keep falling farther and farther behind in the dizzying world of technology. Henry David Thoreau once warned that the day is coming when we will become tools of our tools. Old Henry was pretty prophetic. That...
...generations of explorers. Now it is home to one of America's best new poets -- a Harvard-educated park ranger. Henry David Thoreau had the woods of Walden for inspiration. Davis McCombs has the cavernous depths of Mammoth Cave. "People that...
...to discover the joy that comes from serving others, I invite you to get involved -- and remember the words of Henry David Thoreau: "One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something." Volunteering is truly your opportunity...
...to stand firm enough "to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause." Henry David Thoreau swore by slow. So did Albert Einstein. Eleanor Roosevelt observed that "all big changes in human history have...