Walden

Emma Watson Recommends this book

Laura Dassow Walls The book that we love as Walden began in the journal entries that he wrote starting with his first day at the pond. (Source)

Roman Krznaric In 1845 the American naturalist went out to live in the woods of Western Massachusetts. Thoreau was one of the great masters of the art of simple living. (Source)

Joan Boixados In case you were deceived and expected me to name Walden by Henry David Thoreau, you should read it too if you haven’t, it obviously is the inspiration to Walden Two. :) (Source)

John Kaag There’s this idea that philosophy can blend into memoir and that, ideally, philosophy, at its best, is to help us through the business of living with people, within communities. This is a point that Thoreau’s Walden gave to me, as a writer, and why I consider it so valuable for today. (Source)

Mark Peterson Thoreau can be thorny to read but Walden is a tremendously important work in the history of environmental thinking and in the history of understanding our relationship with nature. (Source)

Emily Thomas The beginning is hard going. Once you get past that, then suddenly you’re into these beautiful and inspiring descriptions of nature. (Source)

Donna Dickenson He discusses how the original ideals that America was founded on were being compromised, and how massive industrial interests were starting to dominate. (Source)