Walden Quotes

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau`s Walden.

Jim Joel, Lord Howard de Walden, Nicky Phillips and Mrs Doris Allen were very hard to replace. The times are changing and we`re moving with it. We`re getting up back up there.

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind's eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men's wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one's wood-lot to such another's. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.