Two years of simple living by a pond — a meditation on nature, self-reliance and freedom.
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Thoreau built a cabin, lived alone for two years, and wrote a book that has been quietly subverting the American Dream ever since.
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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands…
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