#Walden Pond

[yz]

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts.

October 2024.

[catandgirlcomic]

On Walden Abyss

[thunderstruck9]

Kirsten Everberg (American, 1965), Walden Pond/Walden (Ridge Path), 2019. Oil on enamel on wood panel, 30 x 24 in.

[rhettsgirll]

SO I MADE AN ATTA BOY SHIRTTTTT-any thoughts? :))

I wish I could see them but all their shows are hours away and I have classes :(( I wish I could show my little creation to Mr magoo himself,his goofy little self has helped me through so much and I wish I could even partially pay him back for how much he’s helped me :((

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

I just searched ao3 and there isn't a single fic where the Poets go to Walden Pond?? All those fics taking inspo from 'the lakes' and not ONE brought up THE lake where THE dead poet wrote the DPS intro to every meeting?? I need to fill this niche immediately

[booksiverecentlyread]

71: Walden and Civil Disobedience [2014]

by: Henry David Thoreau

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Walden Pond Revisited by N C Wyeth

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see… — Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.

Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while.

My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.

No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau [poetic outlaws]

[tilbageidanmark]

Walden Pond.

[doctorslippery]

It makes a better story when you think that he's on his own, far away from civilization, discovering himself, nature, and the world as it really is. The myth falls apart when you realize the truth. It is still a classic introspection…but the BUT is a pretty big one.

[kaiyves-backup]

I took the commuter rail to Concord and then biked to Walden Pond! I had a great swim and got to just sit in the shade on the edge of the forest, then I biked back to the town to explore down Main Street a little.

[nightndaydreaming]

Oh to live in a cabin by the lake writing my novel

[zweilousrage]

(Fan Lore)

I had this pic lying around in my screenshot collection and I felt like making a height comparison chart.  These are most of the NPCs I use when I make FO4 Machinimas.

Red names are generic enemies/presets that I “adopted” and gave names to. 

Black names are regular characters

Blue names are my OC/Player characters.

Obviously this isn’t official but I felt like making/uploading this for imagination’s sake.

[roadtripnewengland]

You’ll find a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond near the visitor center in Concord. Inside are three chairs, a writing desk and a bed to recreate how Henry lived at the pond for two years.

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Not far away, at the Concord Museum you’ll find Thoreau’s actual writing desk, his bed, and at least one of his chairs (the rocking chair I believe)

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Thoreau left the cabin in 1847, and it was moved elsewhere- so by the 1870’s people weren’t quite sure of the precise location. In 1873, with help from Ellery Channing’s recollections- Bronson Alcott (and Mary Newbury Adams) left stones that began a cairn that is still in the woods today.

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They were close- but not exact. In 1945 an amateur archeologist named Roland Robbins excavated the site and discovered the foundation of Thoreau’s chimney as well as several other items confirming its location. The dimensions of the cabin are now marked with several stone plinths, and the location of the fireplace with a larger inscribed stone.

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The cabin site can be found on and easy walk about 1/4 the way around the pond (from the visitor center) and from there several paths around the pond will mark other locations mentioned in Walden such as “The Ice Fort” #igersnewengland #igersmass #thoreau #waldenpond

[autummnnday]

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draw lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man’s particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

from Walden by Henry David Thoreau 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Photo of 'Walden Pond, A Late Summer Afternoon', by Daniel Joder.)

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"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'

[Ian Sanders]