Walden Pond and Wayside Grist Mill

Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond for two years in the 19th century. The place is now a National Landmark but still an esoteric visitor spot. In summer, the pond is open for swimming and one can also do hikes up the circuituous route to experience the serene beauty of the place and see the location of Thoreau’s wood cabin deep in the woods.

ENJOYING THE SUN

A PICTURESQUE SPOT ALONG THE HIKE

THE CABIN LOCATION

A CAIRN MARKS THE CABIN SPOT

Some quotes from Thoreau :

• Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
• 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.
• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
• Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
• I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
• Thoreau on the Geeta – In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.

Actually, the entire book, ‘Walden’ is scattered with such gem of thoughts. The book itself is a difficult read but miracles can happen through perseverance!

Wayside Grist Mill – built by Henry Ford. Features a giant water wheel and the stone ground wheat and corn is available for sale. The fictional ‘Dorlcote Mill’ from George Eliot’s ‘The Mill on the Floss’ comes to life here. For a single revolution of the water wheel, the millstones are turned about twenty-five times.

WAYSIDE GRIST MILL

THE TRAIL UP THE MILL

A CLEAR REFLECTION!

SIDE VIEW OF THE MILL

INSIDE THE MILL – MILLER DRESSED IN QUAKER OUTFI

THE GRIST MILL TRAIL IN AUTUMN

~ by goldendog on May 27, 2008.