Plant and bird phenology and plant occurrence from 1851 to 2020 (non-continuous) in Thoreau's Concord, Massachusetts.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3646
Abstract: Concord, Massachusetts, USA has served as an active location for phenological observations since philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau began recording plant and animal occurrence and phenology in 1851. Since that time, numerous naturalists, scientists,… read more here.
Keywords: ecology; concord massachusetts; phenology; thoreau ... See more keywords
Disciplines of Attention in a Secular Age
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DOI: 10.1086/703963
Abstract: “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things,”Henry David Thoreau writes inWalden (1854). In the century and a half since Thoreau withdrew to the Massachusetts woods, his thinking… read more here.
Keywords: thoreau; secular age; attention; disciplines attention ... See more keywords
Thoreau’s Dialectic of Dissent and Contemporary Activism
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DOI: 10.1177/10659129221109152
Abstract: Recent scholarship on Thoreau’s thought has pushed in two opposing directions: some have maintained that Thoreau’s withdrawals from political engagement were actually intended to serve democratic ends, whereas others have argued that Thoreau’s political engagement… read more here.
Keywords: political engagement; activism; dissent; dialectic dissent ... See more keywords