Born this day, July 12, 1817 was Henry David Thoreau essayist, naturalist and poet. He moved into his now famous home, a small cabin on Walden Pond on July 4, 1945. From there, he wrote, Walden, or Life in the Woods (Walden) published nine years later. He died on May 6, 1862. Thoreau’s Walden isContinue reading “On Walden Pond”