Leah



Author, teacher and revolutionist, Henry David Thoreau decided to ignore the beckoning hand of society’s madness and left to live in the woods alone. It is in this time that he wrote, //Walden// . Walden is a book that depicts Thoreau’s perspective on society. The mind is a complicated machine. When able to relax, and set itself apart from society, it can think great thoughts and create remarkable things. Yet despite the opportunities that separating yourself from society provides, the human race remains caught up in the stress and anxiety that is human civilization. We miss out on the potential creativity of man kind. It is because of Thoreau that I decided to sit in silence in a secluded forest to think. The tree I sat next to inspired me to create this picture. I wonder what great things I could create if I stayed in the woods longer, like Thoreau did.