Abhy’s Reviews > Walden > Status Update

The material was pure, and his art was pure; how could the result be other than wonderful?

Walden was dead and is alive again.
"Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847."

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. "But you do not mean student should go work with hands instead of heads" I do not mean that exactly,.. they should not play life, or study it merely, but earnestly live it

"There is some of the same fitness in a man building his own house that there is a bird building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?"