Journal 11

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)

A man built a small house in the woods alone. He is showing that you are more intouch with life when your just living the the essentials and not over comforted. When you are in society you become to busy with comforts, your job and family. You become more focused on just the neseceities when you are in nature.

Quote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Sounds” (234)

How he spends his days. He just sat there and observed nature and listened to the birds. He let everything pass through him in nature.

Quote: “Instead of singing like the birds, I smiled at my good fortune.”

“Brute Neighbors” (235)

This passage exaggerates between red and blcck ants. There is a battle between the red and black ants. The ants are fighting ovcer territory, which is wood chips. He compares them to soldiers fighting over land. This relates to human and how thye fight for dominance and power.

Quote: “They struggle half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldiers had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies…”

“The Pond in Winter” (237)

We see some nature in ourselves. The pund water was frozen and he cuts a hole in the ice to get water. The fish under the ice were still living we just could not see it. Even though you see dirt or ice, look beneath the surface and discover what good is actually there. Everything around us is beautiful

Quote: “Heavan is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“Spring” (238)

This is about winter changing into spring. Winter is a harsh, cold, long season. While spring is calm, warm and beautiful. It’s the renewel of each year.

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.”