Henry David Thoreau and the Necessity of Conviction

For generations, Henry David Thoreau has been a model of how to live according to one's deepest convictions. His writing inspired Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance, and his experiment in living a simple existence at Walden remains a touchstone for the environmental movement. Thoreau was an immensely complex man, however, and now we have a modern biography adequate to his thought and his art, Laura Dassow Walls' Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Perhaps the leading scholar today on Thoreau, Walls puts her subject at the intersections of science and philosophy in nineteenth-century America.
This program is presented in partnership with the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago and The Newberry Library.
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[@patriciamalone4473]

Brilliant speech. I enjoyed how you humanized this very important man.

[@Frauter]

thank you for the passionate, informative speech and the quality recording

[@underfakelights]

My Walden Pond is to deliberately journey to the pine tree next to Henry give it a hug and say thank you. 🌲

[@eddiebeato5546]

Thank you for such a top-notch quality video! What a gifted speaker you are!

[@davidbussell2300]

this is really wonderful, thank you for sharing.

[@tomlucia6143]

he mentions my home town of haverhill in his week on the concord and merrimack rivers...someof the streets are named locust,apple,orange..i believe he did this while he was a surveyor

[@roberttsaturyan8722]

Jeffrey S. Cramer's footnote (214): "Despite descriptions to the contrary by various authors, Thoreau, with few exceptions, referred to his domicile as a house, including in the first sentence of the book. He called it a homestead once, a cabin and a hut twice, a lodge and an apartment three times, and a dwelling four times."

[@alirezafarahani2726]

Thank you for sharing. I have a question, why every time I see a speech about Thoreau, this lady is being shown up?