Six Words: Wilderness, Essay, Design, Advertising, Compartment, Rider
I suppose for many people educated in America, if they are asked if they know who Thoreau is, they would say something like he is a poet and an author who wrote essays about the wilderness. If you look for books by Thoreau, the cover design of older versions is almost certain to include a tree, while newer versions often contain a picture of him. Trees are featured in advertising for a movie titled Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul, which is about his time at Walden Pond and his impact on environmental issues and on civil rights.
He built a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond, that had only a single compartment. You can see a one room cabin today by riding out to Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park here in Austin. It probably belonged to one of the original ranchers. There are many questions that arise when you see an actual one room cabin. One of those question is how did families living in a one room cabin have more than one child. I wonder if that is a question that Thoreau pondered, but only abstractly, since he never married nor had children.