Amanda's review
Thoughts from Walden Pond
by Henry David Thoreau
well done Amanda. I never read this and it's definitely something I should get around to.
Amanda's review
Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
Amanda's review
rating:
While Thoreau can seem a bit pretentious about his successes 'living off the grid', this is a great book to remove oneself from the excesses of contemporary life. For example, on the topic of fashionable, but impractical clothing... "yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. [...] I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
This book reveals how a simpler life is in fact richer in quality than a life filled with irrational social obligations, meaningless excess in material possessions, and soul-deprecating work. The arguments made are so incredibly refreshing, rational, and timeless as to inspire a more sensible, free lifestyle.
This book reveals how a simpler life is in fact richer in quality than a life filled with irrational social obligations, meaningless excess in material possessions, and soul-deprecating work. The arguments made are so incredibly refreshing, rational, and timeless as to inspire a more sensible, free lifestyle.
well done Amanda. I never read this and it's definitely something I should get around to.