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Henry David Thoreau Walden

• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all
  to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862American poet,
essayist, and philosopherTranscendentalistWrot
e Walden in 1854Sweet beard, right?

• Henry David Thoreau

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TRANSCENDENTALISM

• We will walk on our own feet we will work with
  our own hands we will speak our own minds...A
  nation of men will for the first time exist,
  because each believes himself inspired by the
  Divine Soul which also inspires all men. Ralph
  Waldo Emerson

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Walden Pond Concord, Massachusetts
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,
discovered that I had not lived. - Thoreau
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Thoreaus view of the pond when he looked out his
door
The path Thoreau would travel to his place of
contemplation
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Geographic location of Walden Pond
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Walden

• Personal introspection
• Solitude
• Contemplation
• Closeness to nature
• Simplistic lifestyle
• Rebellion of materialism
• Self-sufficient

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1. Modern Thoreau
2. Overview of Thoreaus Lifestyle

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

• Page 130 I stare at the pond.
• Page 196 The floor of the forest is damp.
• Page 214-15 I stomp through our eucalyptus
  forest
• It is life near the bone where it is the
  sweetest.