![]() At that point, Emerson was dallying with communitarian ideals, and doubtless found the idea of a house guest more palatable than carting manure at the nearby utopian compound of Brook Farm. ![]() Thoreau first joined the Emerson household in April of 1841. (“Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow,” he once wrote.) Yet he largely stuck to his burrow, with one notable exception: a protracted pajama party, in two distinct chapters, at the home of his great friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yes, he sang the praises of perpetual motion. The rest of the time, he lived as a paying customer at his family’s boarding house in Concord, Massachusetts. But, in fact, Thoreau spent little more than two years in the cabin. ![]() Indeed, readers might be forgiven for imagining that he passed his entire adult life there, planting beans and bouncing pebbles off the frozen surface of the pond. When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we think of him at Walden. ![]()
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