Today, I begin to read Thoreau’s essay on the Maine Woods, which was unsellable in his time, being described by the famous New York editor Horace Greeley as “...rather long for my columns and too fine for the millions.” This essay was completed four years before Thoreau began his experiment in simplicity on the shore of Walden Pond, and gives hint of the author’s vision of nature and his reflections on the way so many of us choose to live our lives.