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Nature's Gift


The justification of this lifestyle is obvious when he writes "economy has nothing to do with the ways and means of increasing wealth." He had no private property, because of course that wasn't basic and natural, but economical and a detail. In the woods, surrounded by the fruits of his labor there was no competition. He wasn't flagrent, he had enough of what he needed. His purpose was to live with out the excess that society did. He had enough food to last him a sufficent period. He kept a suitable bit of clothing, but nothing that he viewed as unecessary. Here in the environment he created for himself he would go on a live by a philosopy ".let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail." It was Walden, and self reliance that granted Thoreau the experience of the purest form of satisfaction. His time was well spent. He was intellectually gratified during the experiment. By the end of his time at Walden Pond he found that he could work for 6 weeks to live for 1 year; he worked for 1 day to be comfortable for a weeks time. .
             Thoreau went to Walden to live a life that society didn't wish upon themselves. He was bothered by the lifestyle of people live. He viewed the flagrance of peoples wealth to not be the root of their happiness. He lived life with superfluous possessions, then excluded them from his daily existence, only to re-enter a society of materialistic values; maintaining that the core of his existence is what it is with or without the excess. He determines that "It is a fool's life as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.Most men, even n this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer friuts cannot be plucked by them." His visitors didn't have what it took to live his life, even though they found what he had done to be a success.


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