Walden and Civil Disobedience you’re finally here! And—for a brief time—rats adorned

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For his entire life

painfully honest self-appraisal

People are starting to ask who is to blame and how can we fix the problem

Walden and Civil Disobedience you’re finally here! And—for a brief time—rats adornedIn 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor, and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). In 1846, Thoreau refused to pay a mandated poll tax, refusing to support a government that protected slavery and had launched an aggressive war against