num_pages: 112
description: Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement -- a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
language: English
title: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
titlecomplete: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Penguin Great Ideas)
genres: Biography, Essays, Classics, Poetry, Nature, Environment, Autobiography, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 1264
publisher: Penguin Books