5/24/2023 0 Comments Walking david thoreau“We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the piles of papers on your desk – organize them into nice presentable containers – like 3-ring binders on your shelf. A Livebinder is a digital file cabinet where anyone can upload or link materials for others to use. In 2013, I created a Livebinderfor my seniors who were reading the Bill Bryson book A Walk in the Woods. Therefore, I was surprised to discover that although I have taught his essays and discussed his literary impact on American Literature, I have not yet written on this blog about Henry David Thoreau. “That’s a rather depressing sentiment,” my Aunt Rita had commented. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Soon after, my choice of for a quote under my yearbook photo (a serious decision made after much deliberation) was his: I remember my first encounters with Thoreau were traditional, his essays read in my high school English class. Today marks the 200th birthday of American writer (poet, essayist, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist) Henry David Thoreau.
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