@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 […]