9) Sign/Rocks:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

One of the traditions of the Reserve is represented in this photograph.  Each visitor picks up a rock along the path and places in a pile in an opening near Thoreau’s actual cabin’s hearth, seen in the top right corner of the photograph.  The next frame will better explain the foundation site.

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