... notes, "Thoreau himself was seemingly more interested in the outdoors than in school and spent all his spare time in Concord's woods and meadows and on her rivers and ponds" (The Days of Henry Thoreau 30). He started attending Harvard in 1833. It was a professor by the name of Edward T. Channing, who influenced Thoreau's early skills of expression through writing. After his graduation in 1837, he started ... expansion held for Thoreau. The symbolic west in "Walking" possesses a mythological significance. The west represents health, vigor, new ventures with unknown outcomes, and the futu...

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... . In stormy weather they are sometimes of a dark slate color. The sea, however, is said to be blue on day and green another without any perceptible change in atmosphere. I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. Some consider blue "to be the color of pure nature, whether liquid or solid." But. Looking down ... the ice and looked through the hole, until I saw my axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; and there it might have stood ...

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