Word: concorde
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During the last decade of his life, Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations...
...tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page of Wild Fruits. He portrays his subjects with keen clarity, but he also wants his Concord neighbors to wake up to the error of their ways: "We cultivate imported shrubs in our front yards for the beauty of their berries, while at least equally beautiful berries grow unregarded by us in the surrounding fields." He argues passionately against the careless destruction of the wilderness around him. Hearing that huckleberry pickers in his area have been ordered off privately owned fields, he fumes, "What...
Miller is not an official faculty member of the school, according to Andrea E. Wilson '91, a spokesperson for Concord...
...Clark said Concord University's Web site made him question Miller's involvement with the institution...
...Concord press release said members of the Board of Advisors "guide instruction...