Walden, Or, Life in the Woods
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Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy
Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesNature Writing
Publisher Price: $8.00
ISBN13: 9780486284958
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Apr 12 1995
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it had to teach. Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin in the spring of 1845 on the shores of Walden Pond -- on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he observed nature, farmed, built fences, surveyed, and wrote in his journal.
Walden offers abundant evidence of Thoreau's ability to begin with observations on a mundane incident or the minutiae of nature and then develop these observations into profound ruminations on the most fundamental human concerns. Credited with influencing Tolstoy, Gandhi, and other thinkers, the volume remains a masterpiece of philosophical reflection.
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