Hi Danon et al
Walden pond is pretty but not in itself any different from hundreds of other New England ponds. It's knowing that Thoreau lived there a while, and wrote of it, that makes one feel connected to it and makes it special. (if you're a Thoreau fan that is)
Speaking of Thoreau, here's a little bit of trivia for you all:
I recently read that Wm. Butler Yeats wrote 'Lake Isle of Inisfree'
after reading 'Walden'. Here's the Yeats poem together with a related link.
'The Lake Isle of Inisfree'
I will arise and go now, and go to Inisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cd200/mac65.html
Heehee!...Come an' get me, if ya dare!
