“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862
American poet, essayist, and philosopher
Transcendentalist
Wrote Walden in 1854
Sweet beard, right?
Henry David Thoreau
TRANSCENDENTALISM
“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden Pond: Concord, Massachusetts
“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, discovered that I had not lived.” - Thoreau
Thoreau’s view of the pond when he looked out his door
The path Thoreau would travel to his place of contemplation
Geographic location of Walden Pond
Walden
Personal introspection Solitude Contemplation Closeness to nature Simplistic lifestyle Rebellion of materialism Self-sufficient
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1. Modern Thoreau2. Overview of Thoreau’s Lifestyle
The Adoration of Jenna FoxPage 130: “I stare at the pond….”Page 196: “The floor of the forest is damp….”Page 214-15: “I stomp through our
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“It is life near the bone where it is the sweetest.”