Henry David Thoreau has impacted my life with his book "Walden". I first read it in high school, and I have read it a few times since then. I have always loved nature and being in the woods. When I first
decided to drive into New England, this was the first place to go on my list to visit.
This pile of rocks was started over a hundred years ago, and visitors to the Walden Pond homesite have added to it. I planned to not add a rock of my own, but after sitting there awhile, I figured to go ahead. The reddish brown rock at the near end of the large black rock was mine.
I passed only a couple other people while on the trail from the parking lot to Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond homesite. Once at the homesite, I had the place entirely to myself for the hour or so that I wandered and sat there.
Henry David Thoreau is buried with the rest of his family over the hill from Walden Pond, in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary in Concord.
