Word: walden
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Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
...Walden is too remote for Harvard students without cars or maps to visit frequently. Those of us interested in wildness, the life transcendental, or the feeding habits of squirrels need go only when the weather is good or when we misplace our copy of Walden and want to be reminded of its deathless words. We need bring, at most, a pumpkin...
...meantime it is our task to do for our surroundings here in Cambridge what Thoreau did for his. We each need to create a Walden of our own; we need to fit words to places. We need to make clear our thoughts as we walk down JFK to the river, and articulate them to a friend or a journal page...
...thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will," Thoreau says. We don't have to live by ourselves or go to the woods to find Walden. It is here if we create it, and it will remain here. Whenever we return to it, we will be able to hear the echo of ourselves...