Podcast appearances and mentions of laura dassow walls

Send us a Text Message. Henry David Thoreau famously refused to pay his poll tax and went to jail (very briefly) as a result. Jeff and Scott chat with Laura Dassow Walls, emerita English professor at Notre Dame and author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, about what we can learn from Thoreau about taxes and the relationship they create between taxpayers and the state. Get CPE for listening to Tax Chats! Free CPE courses are available approximately one week after episodes are published. Visit https://earmarkcpe.com/ to download the free app. Go to the Tax Chats channel, register for the course, take a short quiz, and earn your CPE certificate.

Hij was geniaal, reisde over de wereld en ontdekte de samenhang in de natuur: Alexander von Humboldt. Wat maakt hem zo populair en invloedrijk? En waarom hebben we het nog steeds over hem? In deze tweede aflevering in de serie ‘Grondleggers van de ecologie' duikt Anthonie met botanisch filosoof Norbert Peeters in de wereld van rockster-ecoloog Alexander von Humboldt. We ontdekken wat Humboldt van Hollanders en Brabanders vond toen hij samen met zijn vriend Georg Forster op de Dam in Amsterdam onderzoek deed. Maar het blijft niet bij de een omzwerving langs de Rijn. Na een periode in Jena, waar Humboldt beïnvloed wordt door de filosofen Immanuel Kant en Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, gaat Alexander op reis naar Zuid-Amerika. Zijn voornaamste doel is om het vraagstuk van de plaatsloosheid van planten te beantwoorden. Hij maakt bijzondere dingen mee en doet bizarre experimenten. Waarom gaat hij bijvoorbeeld op bezoek bij een papagaai? En waarom is hij zo vervelend tijdens de beklimming van de Chimborazo? En wat ontdekt hij op die vulkaan? Humboldt wil wel op basis van natuurwetten en metingen iets zeggen over de verspreiding van plantensoorten. Dat lukt hem maar ten dele, omdat hij bepaalde concepten gewoonweg nog niet tot zijn beschikking heeft. De belangrijkste daarvan is de strijd om het bestaan. Hij legt de nadruk op harmonie in de natuur, niet op strijd en rept met geen woord over uitsterven. Humboldt is wel één van de eersten die de nadruk legt op de verwoestende effecten van de mens op natuur. Gek genoeg draagt Humboldt door zijn ontdekkingen er ook aan bij. Hij geeft de sleutel voor de grote plantverhuizingen die na hem een grote vlucht nemen in het kolonialisme van Europese landen. Met zijn lyrische beschrijvingen van de wildernis heeft Alexander von Humboldt wereldwijd mensen geïnspireerd en bijgedragen aan het ontstaan van de wereldwijde natuurbescherming. Wil je meer lezen over en van Alexander von Humboldt? Norbert tipt de volgende boeken: ‘De uitvinder van de natuur' van Andrea Wulf voor een eerste kennismaking met Humboldt. ‘The passage to cosmos – Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America' van Laura Dassow Walls. ‘Menschen im Weltgarten – Die Entdeckung der Ökologie in der Literatur van Haller bis Humboldt' van Heinrich Detering. ‘Views of nature' van Alexander von Humboldt. ‘Het vuur nog geensinds gedoofd' voor het Nederlandse deel van de reis langs de Rijn met Georg Forster. Wil je reageren op deze aflevering? Dat stellen we op prijs. Reageren kan via @toekomstnatuur op Twitter, @toekomstvoornatuur op Instagram of door een mailtje te sturen naar toekomstvoornatuur@vlinderstichting.nl.

“One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be ‘dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.' Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. They talk as if it were impossible that a man could be ‘divinely appointed' in these days to do any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected with any man's daily work; as if the agent to abolish slavery could only be somebody appointed by the President, or by some political party. They talk as if a man's death were a failure, and his continued life, be it of whatever character, were a success.” —H.D. Thoreau, “A Plea For Captain John Brown,” 1859. Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020. New episodes weekly—or close to weekly. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 4): - “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” by H.D. Thoreau (1859): bit.ly/2CPiMHT ; - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854): bit.ly/3jS0Woq ; - Videos and resources on John Brown, the raid on Harpers Ferry, and its aftermath: youtu.be/EG4ukrMtdNs , youtu.be/bB_kbFAui-U , youtu.be/LPyqE2zpQCg , youtu.be/Ax7KjLUOt8w , youtu.be/roNmeOOJCDY , youtu.be/q-E-ffXl2Uk , youtu.be/MILN_17KH6M , youtu.be/dmyswQs6_Bw . - Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls (2018): amzn.to/2B22qdw ; - “Civil Disobedience,” by H.D. Thoreau (1849): bit.ly/2OYTQjz ; - Westward, I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey, by Corinne Smith: amzn.to/2OUyYKi ; corinnehsmith.com ; thoreausociety.org ; - Thoreau's letter to Parker Pillsbury, April 10 1861: bit.ly/2WVVdEg [“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God. But alas I have heard of Sumpter, & Pickens, & even of Buchanan, (though I did not read his message)”] ; - Thoreau's journals, 1860-61: bit.ly/2WXHUmI ; - “The Wreckage,” The Relentless Picnic, ep. 27: bit.ly/2By6Md7 ; - Joanna Newsom, “Does Not Suffice” (youtu.be/FkjkT-ohCpQ) & “Good Intentions Paving Company” (youtu.be/KCCl3nzL5PI) ; - Don DeLillo, Mao II (1991): amzn.to/30VqmJc ; - The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), documentary on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. . . . Some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live—that is, keep comfortably warm—and die in New England at last.” —H.D. Thoreau, Walden, “Economy,” 1854. Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020. New episodes weekly. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 3): - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854) ; - The journals of Henry David Thoreau (1837-1861): bit.ly/36Lxavm ; - “Ktaadn,” by H.D. Thoreau (1848): bit.ly/2CSXvga ; - The Maine Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (posthumously, 1862): bit.ly/3icJ5HO ; - “Early Retirement Extreme” by J.L. Fisker (2010): amzn.to/2ZpEZn2 ; - Ben Gaddes: appalachianben.tumblr.com, bengaddes.com, & bit.ly/2ZA4CBZ ; - Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls (2018): amzn.to/2B22qdw ; FURTHER READING: - An excerpt from "On Trails" by Robert Moor (2016), on Thoreau and Katahdin: bit.ly/3gbBibC ; - “What Happened to the Thoreau Spring Plaque [on Katahdin]?” by Howard R. Whitcomb (2015): bit.ly/31u79jq .

“I perceive that we partially die ourselves through sympathy at the death of each of our friends or near relatives. Each such experience is an assault on our vital force. It becomes a source of wonder that they who have lost many friends still live. After long watching around the sickbed of a friend, we, too, partially give up the ghost with him, and are the less to be identified with this state of things.” —H.D. Thoreau, Journal, 1859. Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020. New episodes weekly. Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content. Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com SOURCES (Ep. 2): - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854) ; - The journals of Henry David Thoreau (1837-1861): bit.ly/36Lxavm ; - Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls (2018): amzn.to/2B22qdw ; - Letter from N. Hawthorne to H.W. Longfellow (Nov. 21, 1848): bit.ly/3fjSqeP ; - With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 1, by Horace Traubel (1906): bit.ly/2YpXhEq ; - “Pierre Menard, Author of the ‘Quixote'” by Jorge Luis Borges (tr. 1962): bit.ly/2UACA7H ; - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

In the liner notes to the album Pithecanthropus Erectus, Charles Mingus calls the title song “his conception of the modern counterpart of the first man to stand erect – how proud he was, considering himself the “first” to ascend from all fours, pounding his chest and preaching his superiority over the animals still in a …

Rajan Datar and guests explore the life and legacy of the American thinker Henry David Thoreau and his famous work 'Walden', which describes the young writer's experiment in living simply at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, for two years, two months and two days in the 1840s. A landmark text in American literature, ‘Walden' has been enjoyed by generations for its insights into work and leisure, nature, solitude, society, the good life and more. Rajan and guests discuss this book and another of Thoreau's famous works – the essay known as ‘Civil Disobedience', read by some of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They also reflect on the legacy of Thoreau's work around the world today, in an age in which his themes – from protesting injustice to living the simple life – continue to resonate with readers. With expert guests Laura Dassow Walls, Kristen Case, John Kaag and Yoshiaki Furui. Produced by Alice Bloch. Photo: Henry David Thoreau (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The idea behind this show is pretty simple: A university campus is a destination for all kinds of interesting people, so why not invite some of these folks out to brunch, where we’ll have an informal conversation about their work, and then we’ll turn those brunches into a podcast?It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.Here in the show's season one finale, Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at Notre Dame, discusses her book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, which was published in 2017 by The University of Chicago Press and earlier this year won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. In the course of their conversation, Laura and host Ted Fox explore the many sides of Thoreau: writer, abolitionist, leader in the Transcendental religious movement, and so on. Just as importantly, though, it becomes clear there is one thing that he was not: the Walden Pond hermit of our imaginations.

Listen as Andrew Menard and Laura Dassow Walls discuss the notions of walking, wildness, nationalism, and the role of beauty in Thoreau's "Walking." This conversation was recorded on February 27, 2014. Read Andrew Menard's article, "Nationalism and the Nature of Thoreau's 'Walking.'" 

Are there better ethics than hope? Two scholars with new books about the author of Walden reflect on Henry David Thoreau's environmental ethic, flirtations with despair, and anarchist politics. The post Thoreau, Now More than Ever: A Conversation with Laura Dassow Walls and Daegan Miller appeared first on Edge Effects.

Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life and Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees to discuss Thoreau's life and work. Respondents include Barry Andrews, a Unitarian Universalist minister, who is the author of several books on Transcendentalism and a longtime participant in the Thoreau Society, and Terry Tempest Williams, author, conservationist, and activist who will be a writer-in-residence at HDS during the 2017–18 academic year. This event took place on September 14, 2017 and is a part of a series of events to honor the life of Henry David Thoreau in the year of his 200th birthday. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Joshua Green talks about “Devil’s Bargain”; Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich discusses “The Fact of a Body”; and Laura Dassow Walls on her new biography of Thoreau.

Laura Dassow Walls from University of Notre Dame delivers a talk titled “‘Some Star’s Surface’: Thoreau on Planet Earth.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.