“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” Henry David Thoreau: Walden.

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“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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