Walden

and Civil Disobedience

Paperback, 262 pages

English language

Published Aug. 25, 2014 by WordsworthGreenwich Press.

ISBN:
9781456453473

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Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book... he gave America the best of all we had." Henry David Thoreau is best known as the American author of "Walden" who wanted first-hand to experience and understand deeply the inspiring connection between man and nature. He built a humble cabin by his own hands beside Walden Pond with tools borrowed from his Concord neighbors and sustained by the fruits of the bean field sown in his garden and those resources yielded up to him by the wilderness. He seeks to transcend inauthentic, everyday life in Concord and awaken his soul to the beauty and harmony of life by living mindfully in every moment in the pristine woods of New England in 1845. “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 …

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