Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts for two years, two months and two days

Henry David Thoreau owned Walden Pond

Thoreau's experiment was to  “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Thoreau's cabin at Walden pond was very expensive and luxurious 

Thoreau often visited his friends while living at Walden Pond

Thoreau inspired the conservation movement from 1850-1920 (including John Muir and The President Theodor Rosevelt) 

It took Thoreau one year to write his book Walden

Henry David Thoreau inspired the 20th century protest movements with his 'civil disobedience' , later protest movements against the Vietnam War.