Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks.

In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built together with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth within the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the sector of guys can in reality awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you haven’t in reality existed until you adopt such a way of life—and only then are you able to reenter society, as an enlightened being.
 
These simple but profound musings—in addition to “Civil Disobedience,” his protest against the federal government’s interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.
 
With an Introduction by W.S. Merwin
and an Afterword by Will Howarth

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