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Walden, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 6164
Housing Units (2000): 2352
Land area (2000): 1.969602 sq. miles (5.101245 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.081038 sq. miles (0.209888 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.050640 sq. miles (5.311133 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77849
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.561268 N, 74.189442 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12586
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Walden, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 734
Housing Units (2000): 397
Land area (2000): 0.338727 sq. miles (0.877298 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.338727 sq. miles (0.877298 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82130
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.730606 N, 106.281811 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80480
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Walden, TN -- U.S. town in Tennessee
Population (2000): 1960
Housing Units (2000): 776
Land area (2000): 3.633082 sq. miles (9.409640 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.633082 sq. miles (9.409640 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77540
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.161154 N, 85.312116 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Walden

Walden (; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods), by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.

Walden (disambiguation)

Walden may refer to:

  • Walden Pond, a body of water in Massachusetts where Henry David Thoreau once lived

:* Walden, a book by Henry David Thoreau, named after the pond

  • Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, a Boulder County, Colorado, park (not to be confused with Walden Pond)
  • Walden Two, a book by B.F. Skinner

Usage examples of "walden".

Chinook was, or Arthur Walden, either, because Chinook was the most famous dog in America, and Walden, his owner, was pretty famous, too.

Walden wrote a popular book, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon, and he and his Chinook dogs - the famous sire himself and a team of his offspring - won the first Eastern International Sled Dog Derby in 1922.

Walden, who I had last year for English and World Civ, was always saying, anyway.

Disappointed Smith, Mix Walden and Si Hedges still seated at their breakfast table.

Disappointed Smith and Mix Walden put up a fight, but Si Hedges burst into tears.

Pea, whose first settlers stripped it of useful resources and sold it to a wealthy fellow who renamed it Walden, restored the landscape with trees and such, and invited settlers who would live the Thoreauvian life of simplicity.

Walden and its happy police force, who wave to us as our spaceliner lifts toward the skies.

As at Walden, in sultry dogday weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.

In time even the Waldenian government would realize that death rays didn't exist, and a lawyer might be able to clear things for his return to Walden.

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.

Walden started all her classes with a military-style workout, complete with jumping jacks and squat thrusts.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

Walden held up a stack of Scantron sheets and said, "Number-two pencils only, please.

Walden, our homeroom teacher and class advisor, began passing out the Scantron sheets.

Normally they picked up a trickle charge from broadcast power, on Walden, but there was no broadcast power on the liner, nor on Darth.