The Readers' Thoreau | Eileen Reinhardt | Group Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/ereinhardt/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Eileen Reinhardt is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:14:32 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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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]]> 0 104f805fcd883b7a6f832ebb82892127 Keith Badger left a comment on a post Title Page - 1862 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/#comment-229 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:11:25 -0500 Is anybody out there in cyberspace reading this?

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]]> 0 a9a7ac794b4c9d0136f2a6705133c5cb Jacob Watson left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-8281 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:10:20 -0500 Okay I have been reading Paradice lost By John Milton, however me though on this line is what if it is an experiment? That is what fascinates me about society is that it is a giant social experiment that we live […]

]]> 0 c874a7040e02a865df59855a96c5261b Eric Bagdonas joined the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/355386/ Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:44:59 -0500 0 641cbb74b9cf75c275139773298e612a Allison Cummings left a comment on a post The Village in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-village/#comment-8227 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:30:37 -0500 Great comments above, folks. He does view village life anthropologically: “I went there frequently to observe their habits.” His time in the woods has given him a certain remove from society, and animals are now […]

]]> 0 12c2f7c633ea705e2fb9229d97991d20 Jacob left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-8159 Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:53:22 -0500 This got me thinking about the seasons, like Spring, Summer, winter and fall. However, I had the realization that we could apply this to life. Spring is like when we are a child, we start to grow and learn, summer […]

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irony.

]]> 0 42c488b7eb4400bc71c3077ac651bd60 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Walking 1-15 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/walking/walking-1-15/#comment-225 Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:04:34 -0500 [Half the walk is but retracing our steps.]

It was this far reaching vision of Henry Thoreau who brought him to my literature and culture in Iran. I am Thoreau’s Iranian translator. Thoreau did not wish to […]

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]]> 0 cc639501d363a9e11e1b6683531fe0e4 Jada Ramsey left a comment on a post House-Warming 10-19 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/house-warming/house-warming-10-19/#comment-8074 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:30:42 -0500 [It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts;]

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I wonder if T may be suggesting a deeper sense of ‘reading,’ perhaps related to the concept of reading put forward by Simone Weil in her […]

]]> 0 d2b0591a7fb23f4e32ac76e6a40cdde0 Rick Visser left a comment on a post Spring 1-13 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/spring/spring-1-13/#comment-7882 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:09:17 -0500 Yes, Allison. For a time, we lived on the shores of Lake Champlain: Cumberland Head, north of Plattsburgh, NY. Once, as we returned home from a long trip on an extremely cold winter night (-15 F), we were stopped […]

]]> 0 0edbd76b411e07d5a6f660a981efda2f Rick Visser left a comment on a post Winter Animals in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/winter-animals/#comment-7880 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:30:00 -0500 Regarding “forms” and the difference between Rabbits and Hares, according to Wikipedia: 
Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus. Hares are classified in the same family as rabbits. They […]

]]> 0 591e7d3b1a91677c8ae3b27ffd6b9a94 Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Spring 1-13 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/spring/spring-1-13/#comment-7844 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:34:27 -0500 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!

]]> 0 6f6c5911d03dd2495904cc04fe982239 Allison Cummings left a comment on a post The Village in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-village/#comment-7840 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 03:22:49 -0500 [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 […]

]]> 0 f4aa68c7e9bd12ecf17feb79203f943a Anna Forth joined the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/276563/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:07:19 -0500 0 fcc974c9ef298aab3980c42641378120 Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Economy 45-58 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-45-58/#comment-7707 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 22:12:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 5b180d87cfffc6820c5c7ad1b9d2d610 Allison Cummings left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-7687 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:56:17 -0500 [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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]]> 0 3eb48cba054e6ebc60de4b6efcc1e471 Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/higher-laws/#comment-6755 Tue, 05 May 2020 02:33:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 665c33ad33961364605c53801a9ce560 Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/higher-laws/#comment-6747 Mon, 04 May 2020 00:39:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 385227490cdab95367e85179d0f7550d Travis Poling joined the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/218135/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 01:11:40 -0500 0 02da4d309ec8dfafce4ab09aac9bbbdc Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/higher-laws/#comment-6738 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 03:16:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1398c8b52ee84769f088d7191cf750c6 Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/higher-laws/#comment-6717 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 03:19:48 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 0630bed25c92d6372195ae0173d35227 Noah Lieberman left a comment on a post The Ponds 1-17 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-ponds/the-ponds-1-17/#comment-6715 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:50:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1cd117c538a35d242a0ac50af7c2cf1f Noah Lieberman joined the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/212717/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:39:10 -0500 0 b0699c9fef18014bb1bee5acb9433216 Christopher Hager left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-6685 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:28:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 ee7f9a0652ff8b880cb11f1f489c1cf2 Henrik Otterberg left a comment on a post Economy 30-44 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-30-44/#comment-6684 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:30:33 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 19eea9d715549ea10148885ba8c2992a Caroline Crimmins left a comment on a post Sounds 1-11 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/sounds/sounds-1-11/#comment-6579 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:32:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 7ea6b14e38587f3836a8c17ecd6a9f3c Caroline Crimmins left a comment on a post Reading in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/reading/#comment-6556 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:37:34 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 13053f47e6d5c4638f719187ae5178bf Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-1-12/#comment-6542 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:02:31 -0500 I have been speaking about Thoreau with American scholars for almost 15 years. You put it very beautifully: “Communication is not a physical item, but it is something that can be shared between two people.” For 15 […]

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