THOREAUS WALDEN
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Thoreau's Walden
Henry Thoreau was a naturalist in every sense of the word. Conservatives and ecologists see him as one of their forerunners; do to his love and appreciation for the beauty of nature. Thoreau was a radical against the social conditions of society. He believed that people should become one with nature, and realize that this is all the human spirit needs to be happy and survive. Thoreau rebelled against the conventional ideas of how one should live in a society. He not only felt strong about his convictions; he was a living example of them. In his classic Walden, Thoreau wrote of his two years of solitude in the wilderness of Walden Pond. He purposely expelled himself from society, in part to be one with nature, and to rebel against he social conditions he did not approve of.
Thoreau says, " I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately, to face the only essential facts of life." In Walden, he discovers that the only thing that we truly need in life is nature...