 Walden, published in 1854, is a book that details his deliberate escape into the woods to live a life simplified to “only the essential facts” in the now-iconic, self-built, one-room cabin on the shores of the pond.The book infused nature writing with the philosophical underpinnings of Transcendentalism, exalting self-reliance and direct experience of nature as the very marrow of existence.The "Walden, revisited" exhibition sets out to examine the complicated and evolving legacy of the book against Walden Pond’s current landscape, today a state park and popular swimming hole.