Walden-ish: A Woman's Adaptation of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"

A Quiet Revolution

"In wildness is the preservation of the world." So wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1854, when he published Walden after living for two years in a small cabin near Walden Pond. He lived there not in isolation, but in deliberate company with the earth. He measured time by the cracking of ice, by the chirping of crickets, by the sprout of beans. His book became a call to strip away the excess of society and live with purpose.

At its heart, Walden was a quiet revolution. In an ag...