Annually, over a half-million people pay homage to the storied pond and spiritually-nourishing woods where Henry David ...

During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...

Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston ... a little over two years. His 1854 book “Walden” (or “Life in the ...