@courtneygoodwin: I think this is a great point about the different ways that Thoreau references animals in Walden. Including their Latin genus-species names makes most sense when they’re objects of his attention […]

@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 […]

@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 […]