Long before ‘personal branding’ or ‘resilience’ became buzzwords, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a quiet manifesto on how to live ...

making a virtue of self-reliance. In his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau once wrote “That government is best which governs not at all”. Thoreau once spent a night in jail ...

Like a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, writer and self-reliance guru Tamara Dean set out early in this century to make a home in the country and to live simply there. The acres of choice for her ...