"I went to the woods because I wished 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 . " Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific story about one man 's attempt to live the simple life in the wilderness, and the great, founding text both for the environmental movement and the entire counter-culture. This is a new sèries of twenty Distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin 's original covers.
