My notion of Henry David Thoreau (gleaned from his autobiography, Walden: A life in the Woods) was that he was a loner, who lived an ascetic life, who loved the outdoors, especially his long walks, & who was obsessed with documenting everything he saw. Reading this article, not exactly a hermit, helps alter my notion. “The question is not what you look at,” Thoreau wrote, “but what you see.”. As a bonus, see pictures of Walden Pond then & now.
