Walden - HD ThoreauI like lots of his short writings too, and I don't love Walden cover to cover--I'm not enough of a nature girl to like all the nature-ee descriptions. But there are other chapters where Thoreau chastises us for not living more simply, and his words are probably more relevant today than ever before. He also stresses the importance of knowing yourself, digging into who you are, approaching yourself as an undiscovered territory. In the end, I think he's too much on the side of individualism, and underestimates the importance of community--but when it comes to Individualism, there's no better advocate.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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