books.google.com - One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and...https://books.google.com/books/about/Walden.html?id=19Su4sx-R80C&q=beautiful&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWalden