Thoreau's Walden at 150 Years

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
— Excerpt from "Walden" - August 9, 1854.

Walden at 150 - Photographs by Scot Miller

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Richard smith, historical interpreter of Henry David Thoreau for the Concord Museum, W. Barksdale Maynard, author of Walden Pond: A History and Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Open Space of Democracy discuss 150 years of Walden on NPR.

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