*Saturday, June 11th 3-4 pm Lecture by Jeffrey
S. Cramer from Thoreau Institute
Talk on ﾅgNature, Art, and Man: A Transcendentalist Viewﾅh
What is it to live deliberately, to act with Thoreauvian
resolve and purpose? What does a life in Nature as interpreted through
Thoreauﾅfs Art offer us as a remedy to todayﾅfs ills? Why should we, living
in a world quite different from the world in which Henry David Thoreau
found himself more than 150 years ago, be at all interested in the words
he wrote? Because Thoreau forces us to ask the questions we do not necessarily
want to hear, his words are and will remain relevant and contemporary
as long as we read but fail to comprehend, study but fail to learn,
and talk but fail to act.
Jeffrey Cramerﾅfs talk on ﾅgNature, Art, and Man: A Transcendentalist
Viewﾅh will present Henry David Thoreauﾅfs views on the natural world
and how those views created a conduct of life that became an art in
itself. A book-signing of his latest book, The Quotable Thoreau, will
follow.
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