 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
||
|
|
Back to Current e-Book-of-the-Month Selections
Nonfiction e-Book-of-the-Month, Mar 2000. THIS IS A BOOK that should be read slowly. How slowly depends on you...but the time that Henry David Thoreau spent in that cabin at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, was two years, two months, and two days. Leased from his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, the place, and the time, afforded Thoreau the chance to reflect on himself and his relationship to nature, to find the quiet center of his life, and to write down what he found in a journal of those nearly eight hundred days. In doing so, Thoreau put together an American classic: Walden has become one of our present-day touchstones, a measure of how and why we live our lives. Its message of simplicity and respect for ourselves and for nature can bring us back to earth from our tumultous flight, can give us back - if only we accept it - peace. Remember now...slowly.
Back to Current e-Book-of-the-Month Selections
|
