“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)
More in touch with life and who you are if living on the edge or just living with the essentials. Disconnects with you who you are if you are taking away from the essentials. Getting in touch with insistence is the higher power of the soul. Don’t do what ever else does, be self reliant.
Quote: “I went to the woods to live deliberately, to frint only the essentials facts of life…and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not live.”
“Sounds” (234)
How he spends his days. He just sat there and stared at the tree, listened to the birds. About the life that surrounded him.
Quote: “Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant god fortune.”
“Brute Neighbors” (235)
His neighbors would brids and ants, basically the wild life. The message is that they are fighting over territory. Over Wood chips. Comaring the red and black ants to soldier fighting in a battle for territory. Motivation in war is to win because of pride and dominance/ power
Quote: “They struggles half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looks back soldier had severed the heads of his foes form their bodies.”
“The Pond in Winter” (237)
We see same nature in ourself. When the ponder freezes because of winter, it is still living but we just can’t see and feel it. The leaves are gone, snow is covering the ground. The main point is nature is a never ending giver even if you cant see it.
Quote: “ Heaven is under are feet as well as over our heads”
“Spring” (238)
This is about winter changing into spring. Winter is a harsh, cold, long season. While spring is calm, warm, and beautiful. It’s the renewal of each year. Nature goes from being empty to being the beginning of the universe again.
Quote: “The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, form dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.” “Walden was dead and is alive again.”
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