“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)
You are more in touch with life and who you are when you lived with only the essential things of life. When you’re in society, it disconnects you from who you are as a person. People find themselves by being connected to your instincts and intuition.
Quote: “I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“Sounds” (234)
When he goes there he just sat and looked at the trees and listened to the things around. It describes the life around him.
Quote: “Instead of singing like the birds, I smiled at my good fortune”
“Brute Neighbors” (235)
He’s comparing ants battling over wood chips to soldiers fighting over a territory. He is suggesting that most of the things that humans do are petty and pointless.
Quote: “I was myself excited some-what even as if they had been men. The more you think of it, the less the difference.”
“The Pond in Winter” (237)
This passage is saying that nature is a never ending giver even when we can’t see it’s bounty, and that sometimes we need to work to reipe it’s benefits.
Quote: “Heaven is under out feet as well as over our heads.”
“Spring” (238)
Winter is cold and rough and when spring comes, everything becomes alive and beautiful again.
Quote: “The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.”
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