Sunday, April 27, 2014

Do you think that Thoreau felt his time at Walden was well spent? Do you think that Thoreau felt that his time at Walden Pond was well spent?

If Thoreau
could feel that his night in jail was time well spent, then he certainly could have felt that
his time atPond was well spent.  In his "Conclusion," Walden writes that he left the
woods "for as good a reason as I went there.  He wanted to live deliberately and not fall
into a "particular route and make a beaten path for myself."  That he felt satisfied
and better for the experience is conveyed in these words of Thoreau:


I learned this, at least, by my experiment:  That is
one...

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