They can be quick to judge and to correct folks. Some Thoreau scholars and enthusiasts are bugged or even aggravated by this recurring mistake. I estimate that at least 20% of our public does this. They’ve heard a similar phrase in the movie title “On Golden Pond,” and so they combine the two, without even realizing that they’ve done it. They know that Thoreau lived at Walden Pond. When we meet and greet people and talk about Henry Thoreau - anywhere, anytime, and not only in Concord - they may mis-speak and call Thoreau’s book, “On Walden Pond.” Obviously, they mix the two entities. Only “Raiders of the Lost Ark” was more popular at the box office that season. The film eventually earned three Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, and it came in second in ticket sales in 1981. Their estranged daughter finally makes her peace with her father, although this act doesn’t come easily. They entertain and get to know their soon-to-be step-grandson. Aging and retired college professor Norman Thayer and his wife Ethel visit their lakeside cabin in Maine for what could easily be the last summer. The phenomenon must have started soon after 1981, when Ernest Thompson’s play “On Golden Pond” was released as a feature film starring Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, and Jane Fonda. I just smiled and shook my head to myself. Yikes! She meant “Walden,” of course: more formally, “Walden or, Life in the Woods.” But she automatically merged the title with the more recent movie/play, “On Golden Pond,” probably without even noticing or thinking about it.
She said that she remembered reading the book “On Walden Pond” in college. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond.It happened to me again recently, when I was quietly talking about Thoreau with someone. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. 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 work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.
The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
Walden ( first published in 1854 as Walden or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau.
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