Walden

Review

This book is a calming, wandering reflection on a different way of life. With its strong perspective relishing a solitary, simple life in nature, it served as a great background to my busy, society approved life. It has this powerful calming voice that offers some beauty in its quiet values. Perspective more than proposition. As the book continues, it does become too much of a naturalistic guide to his specific time at Walden pond. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”