Walden Pond
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Walden Pond is Still There - Thoreau Still Speaks to Us
Walden Pond and Thoreau's writings chronicling his time spent there have become a a classic rite of passage for millions of Americans and their compatriots around the world.
It may be over 150 years since Thoreau built his cabin on the shore of Walden Pond but the allure of silence and a self sufficient life style are as strong as ever.
Longing for a time and place where simplicity is valued, where filling up your time with distractions unknown. Walden Pond represents the knowing of oneself as our very core, the self where the only distraction is us.Walden Pond symbolizes not only the individual's desire for solitude but also a deeply held trait of what makes up the historic American character, protest. Sitting at the edge of Walden Pond one can't help but see the millions of Americans marching in protest against state and corporate tyranny from the beginning of the American experience right up till the current day. From the Tea Party in Boston harbor to the protest of workers in Wisconsin in 2011, Americans have embraced what is a truly one of our greatest rights, the right to protest for what we believe is right. In the spirit of Walden Pond we all should embrace and celebrate the American trait and right of protest.
Simplicity is Alive
Thoreau's Reflections on Walden Pond
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Thoreau's Contemporaries and Creativiity
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
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This beguiling book is Cheever's exploration of the extraordinary cross-fertilization of creativity in Concord, Mass., during the mid-19th century, when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Alcotts lived as neighbors there. If it won't offer much new information for serious students of American literature, it does provide a lively and insightful introduction to the personalities and achievements of the men and women who were seminal figures in America's literary renaissance, and who, Cheever theorizes, influenced the social activism of succeeding generations.
Living a Self Sufficient Life
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- I would love to learn more about Walden Pond, e.g. where is it? Some suggestions about how to get there and what to do there? This lens is already great but makes me curious for more!
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Walden Pond
Walden Pond (NE Landmarks)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 02/17/2012)
One of Commonwealth Editions' perennials has a beautiful new design, as part of the New England Landmarks series. Color pictures by a professional photographer and lifelong visitor to Walden are matched with quotations from Thoreau's Walden so that the reader can stand in Thoreau's shoes, seeing what he saw when he experienced Life in the Woods
Walden - 150th Anniversary Edition
Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic
Amazon Price: $18.89 (as of 02/17/2012)
In August 1854, Houghton Mifflin"s predecessor, Ticknor & Fields, published a book called Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by a little-known writer named Henry Thoreau. At the time the book was largely ignored, but it has gone on to become one of the most widely read and influential works ever published, not only in this country but throughout the world. In August 2004 Houghton Mifflin, in association with the Walden Woods Project
Walden From A to Z
Walden Then & Now: An Alphabetical Tour of Henry Thoreau's Pond
Amazon Price: $9.80 (as of 02/17/2012)
Henry David Thoreau's classic, Walden, was published more than 150 years ago and remains an environmentalist's core title today. McCurdy celebrates this enduring work in a beautiful volume, organized around the alphabet, that matches a simple rhyme about the natural world and a detailed black-and-white wood engraving with each letter.
