Thoreau and Self reliance

Ninjedi01

Ninjedi01

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On many different occaisions in Walden, Thoreau mentions the difficulties and sacrifices he made while living at Walden Pond. But does this mean that while living there Thoreau became self-reliant? He does not ever directly say so, what do you think?
 
yes, he's actually magic and summons the Philosophers Stone to live forever.

I enjoyed Walden though, it's an interesting book.
 
The only thing that you need to know about Thoreau is how epic his neck beard is. I mean that shit wasn't even on his face.
 
i love Thoreau. basically he wasn't entirely self-reliant or totally seperated from society. that wasn't his intention, and wasn't what he did. he did however live in isolation because of his disapproval of society and a lot of what it stood for. he became more self reliant. in another one of his books, he wrote about how he went in total isolation for a shorter amount of time, and when he came back he realized that in life you need a balance. neither being totally isolated or being totally exposed to society are good things, you need a happy medium
 
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