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Living deliberately in solitude and community: naturally.

Publication: Camping Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Everyone knows Henry David Thoreau for his famous hermitage and journal from Walden Pond. He temporarily relocated to the woods on a lot owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in whose house Thoreau was living.

Thoreau is the fellow who wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived (Thoreau 1854)." His essay on Civil Disobedience foreshadowed peace and national separatist movements.

Emerson is remembered for his journals, poems, and essays. He is often quoted with, "The only way to have a friend is to be one," and, "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud...

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