This translation is an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau Walden, a book documenting his experiences living in self-sufficient solitude on the shores of Massachusetts’s Walden Pond. Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, philosopher, abolitionist, and a prominent member of the Transcendentalist movement who believed in using self-reliance to avoid the corrupting influences of politics and organized religion. In this section of Walden, his most famous work, Thoreau documents the 26 months he spent living on the fruits of his own labor, explaining why he had secluded himself in the wilderness and how he hoped to use introspection to better understand society as a whole. As he writes: “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.”
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