
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life & see if I could not learn what it had to teach & not when I came to die discover that I had not lived Inspiring brilliantly written cantankerous & funny
- Walden is both a very specific story about one man's attempt to live the simple life in the wilderness & the great founding text both for the environmental movement & the entire counter-culture A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers