Walden had the air of solitude its resident thinker, Henry David Thoreau, so greatly prized—despite the hum of commuter traffic through the trees.

Biologist Richard Primack uses Henry David Thoreau’s records from his time living on Walden Pond to look for effects of climate change on area wildlife. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more ...

Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass., is now the subject of an experimental, full-color 3-D computer game. A decade in the making, it took longer to create than for ...

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854.

Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s birth, people are still deliberately ...

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau ...

This week marks Henry David Thoreau's 200th birthday, a bicentennial that emphasizes just how briefly the writer lived. He died before he was 45, but "Walden" is immortal. "I went to the woods ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth — err, game. Henry David Thoreau ...

And now, the game — which not only re-creates Walden pond and the land on which Thoreau lived, but also, to some extent, the text’s spirit — is available to play.

When it came to published work, Thoreau was another slow writer. There are seven manuscript drafts of “Walden” composed over the nine years following his move to that cabin by the pond. “July 5.