... Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...ic transmission, in any way. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Haz... ...ulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Ma... ...ot. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have ap peared to me to be doing pena... ...ee young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquire... ...es in this fashion for two reasons: firstly, in order not to waste time in building, and not to want food the next sea son; secondly, in order not to... ... necessities even. There is some of the Walden 42 same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who... ...rosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice? Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is suff... ...that was good. Could he dispense with tea and coffee? Did this country af ford any beverage beside water? He had soaked hem lock leaves in water and...

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