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was the best choice to read during my quarantine, It transported me towards an almost isolated place, yet, in the nature, which by now I miss it so much.
I enjoyed the detailed description of the author's life out of town, noise and civilization, nearby a pond, making the best out of the surroundings.
Personally I am pro self sustainability, I think it requires very high moral background in order to adapt to this lifestyle, even though it seems too far fetched.
However, it is all fun and games, until this lifestyle turns to a movement, and then to a utopia.

Why is it morally right to farm, but morally wrong to raise cattle and feed on them
Selfsustainability, just like Marxism, are ideally good only on paper, not in real life.
I was looking for a resolution in the end of the book merely on this issue, but since the author left the pond eventually I assume that that way of living didn't work.
Henry David Thoreau is best known as an American writer and transcendentalist who wanted firsthand to experience intuitively and understand profoundly the rapport between man and nature.
In a sense Thoreau is Adam after the Fall living East of Eden as a bachelor in a humble cabin built beside Walden Pond by his own hands with tools borrowed from Concord neighbors and sustained by the fruits of a bean field sown in his garden and with resources granted to him by the wilderness.
He wants to transcend inauthentic, everyday life in Concord and awaken his “oversoul” to the beauty and harmony of life by living mindfully in every moment in the subtly beckoning arms of the woods, ponds, rivers, seacoast and mountains of New England.
“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.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life,” Thoreau writes in Walden in "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.
" This deliberate action to immerse himself in nature would pulsate with a circadian rhythm throughout his brief, vibrant life as he canoed the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, walked the beaches of Cape Cod and traveled in the wilds of Maine with Native American guides.
Thoreau studied at Harvard College betweenand, Living in Hollis Hall, he read rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics and science, and became a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.
With his brother, John, they opened a grammar school inin Concord Academy but their school ended when John became fatally ill from tetanus inafter cutting himself while shaving: John died in Henry's arms.
In Concord he met Ralph Waldo Emerson, who took a paternal interest in Thoreau and introduced him to local writers like Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott, Ellery Channing and his future literary representative, Horace Greeley.
On April,he and his friend, Edward Hoar, accidentally set a fire that consumedacres of Walden Woods between Fair Haven Bay and Concord.
After fishing they built a fire in a tree stump near the pond to make chowder, Amid brisk winds in neardrought conditions, the fire spread from the stump into dry grass, When the fire reached the trees, Henry ran through the woods ahead of the flames, encountering an owner of the blazing woods.
Atop Fair Haven Hill he watched aghast as the old forest of pine, birch, alders, oaks, and maples spread through the droughtstricken woods.
With Concord at risk the fire burned for a day until volunteers subdued it, In MarchEllery Channing told a restless Thoreau, "Go out, build yourself a hut, amp there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive.
I see no other alternative, no other hope for you, " Thus, Thoreau embarked on a twoyear experiment in living simply on July,, when he moved to a modest cabin that he constructed onacres of land owned by Emerson on the shores of Walden Pond.
As a protégé of Emerson, Thoreau transformed into a supremely selfreliant individual, which is a core value of transcendentalism.
Transcendentalists hold that an ideal spiritual state transcends, or overcomes, the physical and empirical world around us and that one achieves insight through personal intuition.
Nature is the outward manifestation of ones oversoul by expressing the "radical correspondence of visible things and human thoughts," as Emerson wrote in "Nature" in.
At Walden, Thoreau seeks a deep dive into the oversoul like a wood duck on a tranquil pond at dawn and he finds the engine of this crossingover into a transcendent understanding of life by his immersive communion with nature in all of its pure manifestations.
In solitude Thoreau distances himself from others, not only by a few miles of geography to the pristine purity of the water of Walden Pond, but also by a worldview intent upon surveying the botany of the Garden undistracted by the common, quotidian pursuits of his Concord neighbors.
“I love to be alone, I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude,” he writes, As he confronts his most basic need for shelter in the woods, he writes, “Before winter, I built a chimney.
” He borrows an axe from a neighbor but returns it sharper than he received it, In “Higher Laws” he poses the central existential question to his Concord neighbors to which Walden is his answer: “Why do you stay here and live this moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you” I really had no clue what to expect when I picked this book up.
I had never read it, and was only introduced to Thoreau through a grad course reading requirement of his.
I fell in love then and this book continued that love, While many of his ideas are now cliche, to think that he was speaking them at a time when it was unheard of is incredible to me.
There were many "ah ha" moments, when I realized things about everyday life that had not been clear to me before.
Ideas about living simply and therefore more happily, That owning things can sometimes weigh you down much more than being "poor", He was an enlightened being who recognized the power of human will and thought, I think most people had to read this in high school which I don't agree with, At that stage in life I dont believe many are ready for all the ideas presented, I read it at the perfect time in my life and can't wait to read more of his works.
Finding freedom from consumerism and opportunism in harmony with nature,

The principle of living in harmony with nature has been a topic for a long time until civilization alienated people from their original homeland.
However, especially this opens up the possibility for introspection and reflection with the help of the simple life before apparently essential things like consumption, status and power lose their appeal.


Thoreau shows how a needless life can be filled with happiness and meaning by getting satisfaction from oneself, one's creativity and the people and nature around and not by the eternal hunt for the imposed, changing ideals of society.
Such as "Go into the cave of the enemies and kill them all with a club, so that you can have fun in the hereafter with your comrades who have fallen in battle and massively amounts of willing women and whatever drug we allow you to consume.
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Alternatively, "Learn stupidly from senseless, noncreatively applicable knowledge to make you highly specialized until up into old age.
" "Consume with accumulated capital and build up your righteous free time for ritualized buying decisions,

"Neglect family and friends and ignore the state of the planet that is so friendly to allow you to live on it.
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Unfortunately, the utopian approaches have too often been negatively connoted and presented as impossible, After the dictate that such a world would not be possible, Wars are possible. Fiat money is no problem, But distributive justice with an education system that makes children responsible and happy citizens with environmental awareness Better not.


Nonviolent education was another cornerstone of Thoreau's ideology, At a time when everyone was considered weak, who did not beat children to the bone until blood came out.
According to standard doctrine, you had to form these empty shells with black pedagogy until they became, understandably, freaking lunatic religious extremists and fascists.
Forcefully forge them like a glowing lump of metal with hammers without love to the instruments one needed to nourish the future generation with pain and cruelty.


This educational mentality could have had a not inconsiderable influence on inhumanity at all times, especially with extreme ideologies that gain more access when the majority of the population is from childhood on severely traumatized.
When you do evil to innocent beings, teach cruelty and force them to lose all emotions to defend and protect themselves, you get the wished result.


The questioning of authorities was and is a stepchild of human behavior, Therefore, Thoreau warned that, even in democracies, one should never bow submissively to majority decisions without questioning them critically.
He allowed people the right to protest against bad decisions and to not be forced into a silent consensus.
In addition to a pioneer of environmental protection and nonviolent pedagogy, he can, therefore, be seen as an icon of the civil rights movement, passive resistance and civil disobedience.


His inspirational ideas have influenced icons of freedom movement over the centuries and in the explosive current world situation, they show their visionary power and the potential for the full development of humanist ideas.
If everyone lived that way, sustainable existence and peaceful coexistence with nature would be easily possible, The satisfaction with the most essential and the inward turn, rather than longing for ephemeral, mundane consumerism,


A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated reallife outside books:
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