Two years. Two months. Two days.

This is the time spent by David Henry Thoreau along the shores of Walden Pond.

We now look into his self-proclaimed “experiment in living simply” and ask ourselves two short questions:

What exactly did Thoreau do during this time? And maybe more importantly, what did he hope to accomplish while residing at his fabled secluded cabin in the woods?

Works Cited:

https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Disobedience-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1619490927

https://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1619493918

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/461300?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvrs90hh.12?searchText=henry+david&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dhenry%2Bdavid%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ad123667cd32b752e3fcd984b64929d40

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctvrs90hh.12.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A90df29e6fe53afc4ccdf61e002a28f6c&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

https://www.walden.org/education/for-students/myths-and-misconceptions/


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/henry-david-thoreau

https://www.nps.gov/places/walden-pond-in-the-walden-pond-state-reservation.htm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Legacy

https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2017/08/09/heres-why-you-should-wander-walden-pond/

https://www.walden.org/education/for-students/thoreaus-place/

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/environmentalliterature230/2012/10/15/the-awakening-hour/

https://nautil.us/the-deep-time-of-walden-pond-237054/

https://daily.jstor.org/myth-henry-david-thoreaus-isolation/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2379656?read-now=1&seq=11#page_scan_tab_contents