Monday, October 5, 2009

Walden Pond State Preservation

The first Natural Historic Landmark in American history.

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Walden Pond

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Site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin. Sign says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Thoreau

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View of Walden Pond from Thoreau's cabin site.