Thoreau spent two years in a small cabin on Walden Pond. This was not an exhibition ... it was an attempt to “live deliberately.” He writes, “Books must be read as deliberately and ...

During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...

Walden Pond is also frequented in summer by walkers ... Among the inscriptions in the park’s guest book is one left by a ...