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Tag Archives: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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: the little dipper
…Occasionally whole groups of Thoreau’s friends came out together to the pond and swarmed into his little cabin. It became quite the fashion to hold picnics on his doorstep, and when it rained, as many as twenty-five or thirty people … Continue reading
thoreau: ways with the wild
…Thoreau’s way with wildlife continually astonished his visitors. Mrs. Edwin Bigelow once said of him: Henry would tell all to sit absolutely quiet and close together- then he would go forward cautiously, sprinkle crumbs before them and then retreating, seat … 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: 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
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