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

2. July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 American poet, essayist, and philosopher Transcendentalist Wrote Walden in 1854 Sweet beard, right? Henry David Thoreau

3. 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

4. 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

5. Thoreau’s view of the pond when he looked out his door The path Thoreau would travel to his place of contemplation

6. Geographic location of Walden Pond

7. Walden  Personal introspection Solitude Contemplation Closeness to nature Simplistic lifestyle Rebellion of materialism Self-sufficient

8. HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=LD BRUK2XYBO HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=_8 FUPRD5RA0 1. Modern Thoreau 2. Overview of Thoreau’s Lifestyle

9. 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.”