Thoreau's residence in the woods provides him with several lessons and concepts. Thoreau wants to learn everything life has to teach in order to live his life to the fullest; he believes nature gives him the best vantage point from which to learn. Thoreau discovers his doctrine of individuality, as he writes, "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 he hears…". Thoreau also feels that most of society's work is unnecessary. "Why should we live with such hurry and waste in life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry". Thoreau instead insists on slowing down and enjoying what nature has to offer. "Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails". Thoreau

A second issue Thoreau brings up is his utmost resentment of conformity. He writes that society as a whole does what the people higher on the food chain tell them to, and in doing so they watch a few people rise to the top and then eat out of their hands. What he wants is for people to strive to be their own self. Initially, it is very hard to see who someone is from the inside, what kind of personality they have, but still must not give up and be one of the millions of sheep and follow the rest of the herd. What Thoreau urges people to do is to find their own self-genius, to find their own original method of living. His interpretations of conformity can lead to no gain of progress as a culture. This is the portion of Walden that I tend to disagree with. Conformity can cause a lot of good and bad things.

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