Walden

As quotes to Walden seem to pop up everywhere nowadays I thought it's time to see what Thoreau's naturalism and transcendentalism is all about. And the book didn't disappoint, especially while being on a solitude-embracing holiday on the Atlantic coast of Canada. Though, I'd definitely was more a fan of his empirical and beautiful descriptions of nature than his preaching on how to better all of society by following his ways. I enjoyed the lyrical playful stories of heroic ant battles and chatty squirrels living underneath his floorboards and loved his meticulous descriptions of his meticulous measurement-taking of the frozen-over Walden pond. The book makes you want to know the birds by their call, and the trees by their color.