Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau In 1845, Henry David Thoreau left Concord Massachusetts and moved to a cabin that he built by himself near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
Walden, is an account of his stay in the woods and his experience. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, he pursued truth in the quiet of nature.
Thoreau believes that such an experience enables one to gain true enlightenment.
Even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly m...