Walden and Civil DisobedienceBy: Henry Thoreau Disdainful of Americas booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalists wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalists yearning for spiritual truth and self reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his musings were often disturbed by his