Walden

Thoreau's reflections on Walden Pond



Last week, we finally had the opportunity to pay a visit to Walden
Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, where we were personally greeted
by “Thoreau” in front of his little cabin.







Henry David Thoreau, a philosopher, naturalist, essayist and early
environmentalist, lived on the shores of Walden Pond for two years, two
months and two days, starting in the summer of 1845.





His account of the experience was recorded in his book "Walden; or,
Life in the Woods", published in 1854. It is a book on nature, a book
on ecology, a book on human nature, a description of the struggle
between modern civilization and the land that nurtured it.




Unabridged Dover (1995) republication


In communing with the nature world, he said:

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had
to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Yeh Tze