The Blurt Time Machine : Henry David Thoreau, 1845

If I could go back in Time with the Blurt Time Machine I would travel back to the year 1845, to Concord Massachusetts and visit with Henry David Thoreau while he was building his small cabin on Walden Pond …

Thoreau is the inspiration for my dream to live a very simple life … off the grid.

Henry David Thoreau, (born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 6, 1862, Concord), American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849).

Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to chop down tall pines with which to build the foundations of his home on the shores of Walden Pond.

This is pretty much anyone needs to live a very happy life : Thoreau’s Cabin at Walden Pond

A Replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, Massachusetts.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/images-videos

From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. Once settled, he restricted his diet for the most part to the fruits and vegetables he found growing wild and the beans he planted. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry groundhogs or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, and writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau

Thoreau made entries in his journals, which he later published and included in Walden or Life in the woods.

Much time, too, was spent in meditation.

It was in these times of deep meditation that Thoreau had the most profound moments of inspiration and wisdom ....

Simplify your life.

He says …

Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have.

Henry David Thoreau

Source: https://www.famousscientists.org/henry-david-thoreau/

Walden and Civil Disobedience : https://amzn.to/3v41I83

Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.

Book Review:

In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle—and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.

Source: https://amzn.to/3v41I83

My Entry for the @BlurtArt Time Machine Contest : https://blurt.blog/blurtart/@blurtart/blurtart-contest-the-blurt-time-machine