Walden (Part 2) - At the Pond
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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
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