Walden: The Original Manuscript

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth.

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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be."

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Walden was published in 1854 by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, a social experiment, a voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to som...