Whose statue is it? What is the significance of the location? The lake shown is just beyond the location shown in the first visual.
Answer: The statue is that of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of the log cabin in which he lived for two years. He wrote the famous transcendentalist book Walden while here. The lake is the Walden pond. Rahul Trivedi, Raghu, Hirak and Rajesh got it. Well done.
Answer: The statue is that of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of the log cabin in which he lived for two years. He wrote the famous transcendentalist book Walden while here. The lake is the Walden pond. Rahul Trivedi, Raghu, Hirak and Rajesh got it. Well done.
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Walden: or, Life in the Woods. Statue of Thoreau near Walden pond where he lived for two years ("I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately"). The cabin in the background is replica of the house he had built.
Thoreau @ Walden
Thoreau and Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau and Walden pond. Thoreau's stay at a cabin near Walden pond formed the basis for his book Walden; or Life in the Woods.
Nice connect! I thought you might be interested in this if you don't remember Walden word-to-word:
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Brahmin, priest of Brahma, and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water-jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
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