"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." ~Henry David Thoreau~

This group is dedicated to the town of Concord, Massachusetts and discussion of the life and thought of the New England Transcendentalists and those influenced by their Transcendental Philosophy and spirituality: Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Walt Whitman and others. Related topics are: Contemporary Trancendentalists and Transcendentalism, Concord, Massachusetts, simple living, living simply, voluntary poverty, small houses, tiny houses, Walden Pond, efforts to preserve it and the surrounding environment, nature, naturalists, and naturalism, environmentalism, walking, sauntering, bird watching, wilderness, and all things Emersonian and Thoreauvian.