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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” Henry David Thoreau: Walden

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

Henry David Thoreau: Walden

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July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862

American poet, essayist, and philosopher

Transcendentalist

Wrote Walden in 1854

Sweet 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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Thoreau’s 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 Thoreau2. Overview of Thoreau’s Lifestyle

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The Adoration of Jenna FoxPage 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.”


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