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Walden
“I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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About this work
Walden is Henry David Thoreau's 1854 record of the two years he spent living simply in a cabin he built by Walden Pond. Part memoir, part experiment, part argument, it asks what a life needs once you strip away what it merely wants. Its case for simplicity, self-reliance, and attention to nature has only grown louder with the noise of modern life.
About the author — Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817 to 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, and leading Transcendentalist, best known for Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience. He believed a deliberate life, close to nature and free of excess, was the surest path to clarity.
5 quotes from this work
I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
People also ask
What is the main idea of Walden by Henry David Thoreau?
That living deliberately and simply, with less, lets you see life more clearly. Thoreau went to the woods to confront what is essential and to test how little a good life actually requires.
What is the most famous quote from Walden?
The most cited is his reason for the experiment: he went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Why is Walden so important?
It is a founding text of simple living and environmental thought, and a durable argument for measuring wealth in time and attention rather than possessions.