Walden Pond
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The directors take a visual essay approach, contrasting Walden Pond and its woods and the rivers Thoreau rowed with sped-up footage of our crazy modern world — which can be a little on the nose.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Our teachers took us to Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond, Salem, and most novel for a group of teenage Manhattanites, a real-life mall, the kind we saw only on television.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Henry David Thoreau lived alone for two years in a tiny shack he built overlooking Walden Pond.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
Your destination would be Concord and Walden Pond, with Thoreau’s “Walden” to help you orient yourself.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Mrs. Henry made us read portions of Walden Pond, and afterward I’d had fantasies of going to a private garden where T. Ray would never find me.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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