walden - henry david thoreau

Another on my "must read" list:




"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, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau


"Two years, two months and two days. That is the amount of time that Henry David Thoreau spent in a tiny, 10' x 15' self-built cabin in the woods owned by the Emerson family on the out-skirts of Concord, Massachusetts, next to a pond named Walden. It was there that Thoreau began an experiment in "simple living" when he furnished this tiny cabin with two chairs, a bed, a simple table and a copy of the Bhagavad Gita; the Hindu story of Lord Krishna.

Thoreau’s self-imposed seclusion was intended to offer him the solace necessary to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Instead he wrote the classic tale, Walden, which examines one’s life as an individual, within society and in relation to nature. To this day,Thoreau is recognized as one of the great American transcendental writers and the father of the modern day environmentalist movement. "

courtesy The Statement

It could be that this is purely a projection of my not-so-subconscious desire to escape to the woods {read here if you want to know why}. I also recently found out that although Henry David Thoreau lived in a self-sustainable fashion, he did conceed to send out his laundry every week. Love it.

I'd love to know if you've already read it and what you thought of it.

Meredy xo.