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.

For two years, beginning in 1845, writer and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond. The purpose was to acquire a better appreciation of nature and find an escape ...

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 ...

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 ...

No other 19th-century American writer manages to annoy today’s readers like Henry David Thoreau. In recent years, prominent writers have described him as “narcissistic” and “inestimably ...

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.

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.