The Readers' Thoreau | Site-Wide Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:26:03 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7d2db19ffa8b39a4db4fe36569816178 Paul Schacht left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-1-9/#comment-9380 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:31:59 -0500 @courtneygoodwin: I think this is a great point about the different ways that Thoreau references animals in Walden. Including their Latin genus-species names makes most sense when they’re objects of his attention […]

]]> 0 a45ca58dc9f0ae69357a48f5e0488a61 Courtney Goodwin left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-1-9/#comment-9375 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:04:47 -0500 Some of the language and mention of animals in this first paragraph of the conclusion remind me of Thoreau’s discussion and observation of animals in the chapters Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors, along with […]

]]> 0 faca2f5f02c13b0981c255f850d84414 Paul Schacht left a comment on a post Winter Animals in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/winter-animals/#comment-9364 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:46:30 -0500 @tirone: Whether or not Thoreau was thinking of his own effort at self-realization in describing the foxes, it’s easy to see a parallel. I like your idea. I think it’s interesting, too, that at first the foxes […]

]]> 0 e7ab1dd0eaf33bb3760629c0efb28918 Paul Schacht and Deborah Tirone are now friends https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/827312/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:25:36 -0500 0 4f3d295d8b8515dcdce5e772c4d3334a Deborah Tirone left a comment on a post Winter Animals in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/winter-animals/#comment-9363 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:00:32 -0500 The Chapter “Winter Animals”, and especially paragraph four make me wonder if in Thoreau’s descriptions of the sounds and activity of the animals, he was really describing his own emotions “… as if laboring with […]

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https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-9029 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:08:05 -0500 [whippoorwill] In the book I mentioned earlier, My Side of the Mountain, the main character spends his first few days in the woods, waking up to the loud call of the whippoorwill instead of the usual city […]

]]> f8e3de1c120ab10f7879a21dcca51c09 Annie Cady commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-9026 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:31:04 -0500 [both air and water being perfectly still, but the sky overcast, mid-afternoon had all the serenity of evening, and the wood-thrush sang around, and was heard from shore to shore. A lake like this is never […]

]]> a3e04c73d154f36e37f85895c874b5c0 Beatrice commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-9020 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:06:00 -0500 When I was reading this passage, this sentence stood out to me because Thoreau claimed that his cabin was fit for the gods, which is quite a bold statement! I completely agree with you—it seems that he was e […]

]]> de17be36c6109498a47faca009993706 Ari commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-9012 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:11:10 -0500 [I did not need to go outdoors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather. The Harivansa […]

]]> e4b454a8787df65a48fb63989e574fca Andy commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-15-29/#comment-8930 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:16:19 -0500 I think that it makes sense that quite a bit of the population was involved at the time the book was written, but I think Walden would have been more popular towards the early 20th century. Walden was published in […]

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