When I read this paragraph I can’t help but think of Thoreau’s statements on living deliberately.  He doesn’t care about the government, he’s only going to pay taxes to the parts of society he personally […]

Does this qualify Thoreau as an anarchist?  He’s certainly advocating for a society without governmental force, and possibly run by natural law.  I guess this would make him a philosophical enemy of Locke.

The Field family are an example of the kind of worker Thoreau examined in economy paragraph 49.  He’s working for his home his whole life and yet he’ll never have enough money to afford his own home or live […]

I agree with the statement that Thoreau wanted us to be students throughout our life.  I think he didn’t want us to theoretically restrict our learning to one part of our lives (hence his dislike of university,) […]

Thoreau talking about waste and excess.  It sounds like he’s mocking his neighbors for their wasteful habits, which would fall in line with his feelings throughout Walden.

I think the point of the piece is to defy this quote.  Thoreau’s cabin in the woods is to let him escape the masses of men and live the life that satisfies him.

According to Thoreau, in the modern society labor often goes unrewarded.  Hard and honest work yields little positive results due to the convoluted rules of finance and farmers cannot change that and have to […]