Why This Writer Ditched Civilization and Vanished Into the Woods
And what he found in return.
On July 4, 1845, the writer we’re talking about decided to take a break from civilization.
So he did.
He built himself a tiny cabin on the bank of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and started living there alone.
Not for one or two weeks, but for the next two years, two months, and two days.
He lived there in the woods, grew and foraged his own food, and eventually realized how little we would actually need to live a peaceful life.
He lived there in the harmony with nature and in the tune with himself.
Later on, he penned down his experiences in his great work, Walden, which is still regarded as one of the greatest non-fiction books ever. However, his most influential writing, Civil Disobedience, was also the product of his time of simple living in the woods.
I hope you’ve already got it.
Yes — we are talking about the great American writer Henry David Thoreau, whose work inspired influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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