Walden

Essential reading for all skeptics of progress, seekers of meaning, those wishing to escape the world, as well as lovers of forests and nature. A classic of immense relevance: a passionate plea for responsibility, self-determination, and a nature-oriented, resource-conserving life. Nowhere can one find better arguments for mindfulness and sustainability, minimalism, and vegetarianism. What is truly important in life? To discover this, Henry David Thoreau turned his back on civilization over one hundred and fifty years ago and ventured into the silence of the woods. At Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, he spent two years in a self-built wooden cabin to see if he could learn what needed to be learned, so that in the hour of his death he would not face the realization that he had not truly lived. The magnificent account of his self-exploration, "Walden," bears witness to his quest: with sensitive, poetic descriptions of nature and a credible plea for genuine connection to nature and a self-determined existence. This book has long since become a kind of green Bible, containing the best arguments for sustainability, ecology, vegetarianism, and minimalism.