Walden Pond
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Walden Pond was made famous by Henry David Thoreau, a 19th century Massachusetts author, philosopher, hippie, who built and lived in a tiny shack here for a couple of years and then wrote about the experience.

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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."