@tirone: Whether or not Thoreau was thinking of his own effort at self-realization in describing the foxes, it’s easy to see a parallel. I like your idea. I think it’s interesting, too, that at first the foxes […]

The Chapter “Winter Animals”, and especially paragraph four make me wonder if in Thoreau’s descriptions of the sounds and activity of the animals, he was really describing his own emotions “… as if laboring with […]

Within this chapter, ‘Winter Animals’ Thoreau reccounts on his experiences with wildlife while staying at Walden pond. Not only does he find joy in sharing the woods with these animals, but it helps him to combat […]

What does he mean by this?

@longwalkerbadger There are lots of comments here that have been posted by students and teachers but that you won’t see because they’ve been posted in private groups. It would be great to see more comments in this […]

Is anybody out there in cyberspace reading this?

Being part and parcel of Nature imprisons man and reduces him to a limited and lower level of existence.  In Nature, Emerson rises above nature and says, ““Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its ho […]

Okay I have been reading Paradice lost By John Milton, however me though on this line is what if it is an experiment? That is what fascinates me about society is that it is a giant social experiment that we live […]

Great comments above, folks. He does view village life anthropologically: “I went there frequently to observe their habits.” His time in the woods has given him a certain remove from society, and animals are now […]

This got me thinking about the seasons, like Spring, Summer, winter and fall. However, I had the realization that we could apply this to life. Spring is like when we are a child, we start to grow and learn, summer […]