Walden pond is significant for the events that unfolded there. Henry David Thoreau is one of the most famous American writers today, and this pond was very sentimental to him and inspired his works. He lived on Walden Pond for two years in solitude, and documented one year. Walden pond is significant in it’s creation itself. It was created by the melting of glaciers that wore away the earth is was on creating the pond.