Henry David Thoreau, “Walden;” or, Life in the Woods” (1854)

“Nature and the conduct of life.”

Introduction

The main idea was the importance of his ideas and how Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau was to find the meaning of life, however, he was known as a novel written by Henry David Thoreau in 1854. He was a transcendentalist who escaped to the wilderness in Concord, Massachusetts. He also lived in a cabin for two years, and on land however his friend was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he wanted to know the meaning of the outside world. Thoreau’s goal in writing in the book was to reach many people who it true meaning of life.

About the Author

Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and died there in 1862, at the age of forty-four. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American Philosopher, poet, environment scientist, and political activist whose major work. Although he was a writer during that time he published two books, along with numerous short essays, he was a guy who had a relatively quiet life. He had a life so simple, although he loved to enjoy time with his friends and family. (the loss of his brother John 1842 was a major trauma) During this time, His first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, was still in progress in 1845, when he went to go live in the woods by Walden Pond within those two years and two months he stayed there.

About the Books

During the time of Walden by Henry David Thoreau, the stories and books he published and created reflect the author’s two years of living in solitude in a cabin by a lake. The struggle he went through was a rough time and during the times when he slept and stayed in the cabin, he said he learned at this time he played by experiment that if someone confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in the common hours. He will need to put some things behind him to pass new boundaries within or the old laws be expanded, in favor of more like waking up in the moment. However, when he talks about. The words that express our faith and piety are not always definite, yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. He talks about a gang of men every five miles to keep the sleepers down and level into their beds as it is. a sign to get up again and to begin. In addition, his focus is on ethics in the existential spirit. His work was focused on the well-versed in classical Greek and Roman philosophy, meaning the poetry ranging from presocratic and wisdom literate of various Asian traditions. He drew closer to nature and contemplated the ends of his own life, was otherwise at risk of ending a quiet desperation. The stories, talk about the belief that philosophy is a way of life, that very way of life of wisdom, this is because, according to the belief that philosophy is a way of life, that very way of life “will necessarily be deliberative and reflective” according, for Thoreau, “thinking about his life in the woods is central to his in the woods” (Bates 2012,29). The way he believed we should look to nature, which sought to be always on the alert to find God in nature, he strongly believed in God. He thought of animals, forests, and waterfalls as inherently valuable both for their beauty within the role of the ecosystem. His life in the woods was a mystery he talked about.

The Legacy

Furthermore, what makes this the most important of the essay is the Legacy. Thoreau’s message to us in the story is just to live simply, independently, and wisely. He suggests and he tells us in his books and even in the stories, that he talks about trying to live free and uncommitted, away from things that overcomplicated life as the economy, and modern labor. His beliefs were in the “Civil Disobedience, “Thoreau expresses “any man righter than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one” (Reform Papers, 74). I think what he wanted to do was just make a difference and try to make people understand that nature is so important and with God and all his creation within the area in the forest. For Thoreau, the holy was the work of God, often with nature, the divine force, as he/they created, recreated, and destroyed the universe around him. What I like is that he talks about the two ways of which God’s symbols, first, he uses God

Work Cited

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1836 [1993], “Nature,” in Essays: First and Second Series, ed. John Gabriel Hunt, New York: Gramercy / Library of Freedom, 1993, 282–297; originally published in 1836.

Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ed. Jeffrey Cramer, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Originally published in 1854. Parenthetical citations indicate with Roman numerals which of Walden’s 18 chapters is the source of each quotation