Walden, or Life in the Woods

American  

[wawl-duhn] / ˈwɔl dən /

noun

1. a book of philosophical observations (1854) by Thoreau.

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Example Sentences

Still, Thoreau remains best known for “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” the account of his two years living on the Concord, Mass., pond of the title, in a small house, alone, ruminating, contemplating and formulating a kind of Declaration of the Rights of Man for the back-to-nature movement.

From The Wall Street Journal

His name was Henry David Thoreau, and in his contemplative 1854 classic, “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods,” the famous naturalist, essayist and philosopher described Freeman and some of the other formerly enslaved inhabitants of the land.

From Washington Post

“Walden” borrows its name from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” a memoir, harangue, self-help manual and work of autofiction rolled into one clothbound volume.

From New York Times

But Thoreau’s experiment, immortalized in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” became the world’s most famous act of social distancing.

From Washington Post

Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau settled in semi-seclusion for nearly two years while working on his journals and on “Walden; or, Life in the Woods.”

From New York Times