Walden

Walden was a book of thoughts written by Henry David Thoreau. He was a man of the transcendentalist movement. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. He went to live alone in the woods in 1804 for a period of time to find himself and to find his over soul in nature. He believed that he was a child of the Earth and he wanted to live by him self to see if he could handle it. During his time in the woods he wrote his thoughts and his way of life. He names in Walden because where he was staying was right next to Walden Pond.