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thoreau: leave the pond
Still waters run deep…Then in the late summer of 1847 Emerson himself decided to go abroad for the winter for a lecture tour arranged by his English friends. Mrs. Emerson was in poor health, and the children were too young … Continue reading
thoreau: getting restless at walden
…But despite the visitors, despite all the trips to Concord village and to his parents home, despite his surveying and fence building and carpentry, and despite the hours devoted to writing, it must not be forgotten that the experiment at … Continue reading
thoreau: around the berry bush
His cabin was more like a camper in the backyard, only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies., but Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop … Continue reading
thoreau: passing time at the pond
…One of his most frequent visitors was Alek Therien, the French-Canadian wood chopper later immortalized in Walden. Therien, almost exactly Thoreau’s age, had come down from Canada when he was in his teens. Although their backgrounds were very different, they … Continue reading
thoreau: inspired by weights and dates
…Inspired by their activities, he began a study of the temperature of Walden and the various nearby ponds, rivers, and springs. It was the first of the many statistical studies that were to become so much a part of his … Continue reading
thoreau: the ice men
…He became fascinated with the phenomena of the pond. In the spring of 1846, before the ice broke up, he surveyed carefully the size and depth of the pond. He cut holes in the ice and charted his findings with … Continue reading
thoreau: meanwhile back at the pond
…Meanwhile, Thoreau had not forgotten that one of his purposes in coming to Walden was to write another book, the account of his voyage on the Concord and Merrimack. Work on this, too, had progressed so rapidly that just a … Continue reading
thoreau: free time for first draft
…A good part of Thoreau’s new-found free time he was able to devote to writing. The first work he completed at the pond was an extended essay on Thomas Carlyle. As early as 1842 he had begun making notes on … Continue reading
thoreau: second summer
…The second summer at Walden, Thoreau decided he had had enough of agriculture, and so he planted only a third of an acre of garden-just enough for his own use. “I learned from my two years’ experience,” he explained, “that … Continue reading
thoreau: letting his garden grow
Finding a wilderness at Walden and time to develop a sturdy individualist’s philosophy… …But most mornings he devoted to his garden. His bean rows added up to more than seven miles in length and required constant weeding. What is worse, … Continue reading
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