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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
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adventurous
challenging
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slow-paced
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Personal opinions aside, this is probably one of the most important books ever written. That’s why I give it a 4. I take a few issues with the fact that Thoreau didn’t truly live away from society (his mother was doing his laundry), I do think that such a decidedly minimalist way of living is best for comparing to what was an industrializing, and is now a late stage, capitalist society. The text can get very annoying, especially when it veers into being self-congratulatory. There were times when I was literally pissed off. But over all probably invaluable. I also especially loved reading Civil Disobedience, feels like a very good account of American socialist-individualism - intriguing to me as I’m currently reading Marx!
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"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone - but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house." (127)
"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone - but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house." (127)
Interesting but hard to get through, ran out of motivation