In six pages this report presents an overview of Walden, the autobiographical work by Henry David Thoreau based upon his Walden Pond observations. There are no other sources listed.
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Nature By: C.B. Rodgers - September 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction The American philosopher and writing
Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) spent two years in a crude cottage beside Walden Pond, a small body of water outside Concord, Massachusetts. In 1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of
Thoreaus greatest friends (living with him for several years), offered Thoreau the use of his newly purchased wood lot on Walden Pond to build his small cabin and live as
a naturalist. Although he occasionally ventured into town for meals and human interaction, he spent most of his time caring for his garden and serving as a "neighbor to the
birds." He tells in the book of the wood thrush, the scarlet tanager, and the whip-poor-will that greeted him each day. Walden is essentially a daily account of his
stay in the woods, of which he wrote, "Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity" as theirs. Thoreau wanted to follow natures example, to
"see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Summary and Purpose Thoreau wrote on
the title page of the first edition of Walden his purpose in writing the book "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily
as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." "We need," he wrote in "Spring" the last chapter or section of Walden,