Literary Analysis: Natural Spirituality in Walden by Henry David Thoreau
By analyzing the book "Walden", we can understand how money and materialism were a secondary value to Thoreaus solitude, respect for animals, and the natural phenomenon that man could not identify with tools of measurement. At Walden Pond he found a great deal of spirituality in Nature, and by being one with its many different facets, he was able to ascend to a higher state of being.