Thoreau
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Pennsylvania Book: An American Childhood (1987) by Annie Dillard “I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950′s in a house full of comedians, reading books.” Annie Dillard.
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Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“
Transcendentalism is fascinating not just for the compelling figures and ideas that made up the movement but also for the glimpse it affords us into the nineteenth century New England from which it sprang. While Transcendentalist thinkers got their inspiration in German philosophy, English poetry, and Far Eastern spirituality, the central ideas of Transcendentalism are [...]
