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Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Spring 1-13 in the group
General Discussion: 2 months ago
maybe you need to live near a big lake to hear this, but I’ve heard it. As Kenny said, the ice cracks and booms and it’s Loud!
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Allison Cummings left a comment on a post The Village in the group
General Discussion: 2 months ago
[Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homœopathic […]
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Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Economy 45-58 in the group
General Discussion: 2 months, 1 week ago
This is a very important line (buried in this paragraph), and worth considering whenever you’re about to spend a lot of money! Thoreau didn’t want to expend any life for material things, reasonably, since his life […]
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Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group
General Discussion: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
[Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling t […]
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Allison Cummings joined the group
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Kevin Griffiths joined the group
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group
General Discussion: 11 months, 2 weeks ago
This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently stuck in the same place for so long. I’ve been trying to think more about how my perspective is formed. As I look into the motivations of Thoreau himself […]
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group
General Discussion: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Thoreau thinking about the way people take offense to discussion of fundamental bodily functions is a very modern and current topic within present day social discussion. It makes sense for Thoreau to think this […]
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group
General Discussion: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I find it interesting though not all that surprising that Thoreau holds some unorthodox views for his time on matters of ethical consumption. His focus on isolation, self dependence, and non-harm seems at odds […]
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Travis Poling joined the group
General Discussion 1 year ago
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group
General Discussion: 1 year ago
In the fluid text edition, we can see the way in which Thoreau amends this passage by incorporating significance within the human experience. It is interesting to me that he makes this revision because of the way […]
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group
General Discussion: 1 year ago
This passage, about how a young man first experiences the forest and nature struck a chord with me as I have been walking the grounds of my childhood home. Returning to a place I had not planned to as an older man […]
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Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post The Ponds 1-17 in the group
General Discussion: 1 year ago
It is interesting how despite the importance Thoreau places in his own ability to live by his own terms and without interference from society, he can still find harmony with the company of others. He seems to […]
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Noah Lieberman joined the group
General Discussion 1 year ago
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Christopher Hager left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group
General Discussion: 1 year ago
J.B. MacKinnon, suggests that we might think about the diversity of Nature as “an extension of our own brains,” a “pool of imagination and creativity from which we, as humans, are able to draw.”
Right now I’m […]
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Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group
General Discussion: 1 year ago
This is wonderful, Paul, thank you so much for the imaginative perspective. It reminds me of a passage in Thoreau’s “A Winter Walk” essay of 1843, where he narrates coming to a woodcutter’s clearing on his ramble, […]
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Caroline Crimmins left a comment on a post Sounds 1-11 in the group
General Discussion: 1 year, 1 month ago
Thoreau was very lucky to have this disconnected experience by Walden pond. In paragraph five of “Sounds,” Thoreau talks about the birds that fly past his window. He writes, “As I sit at my window this summe […]
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Caroline Crimmins left a comment on a post Reading in the group
General Discussion: 1 year, 1 month ago
Within the first two pages of her essay, Ms. Hayles discusses how “the NEA chairman, Dana Gioia, suggests that the correlation between decreased literacy reading and poorer reading ability is indeed a causal c […]
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