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October 05, 2005
Walden Selections
For my agenda item I chose a line from chapter 13, paragraph 14. "It is remakable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permenant and universal than that of gold."
I chose this quote because it showed how he is proving his point in this reading. He knows that without wood he could not have survived in the woods for this long. He uses it for everything from keeping warm to cooking his food. He relates this to the fact that society depends on wood just as much as he does, which shows that his stay in the woods is really not all that absurd. He shows this by his quote, "After all of our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood." He is relating his experiences in the woods to the life of those people in the village.
Posted by StacyEstatico at October 5, 2005 02:40 PM
Comments
Yeah Stacy, its like the wood is his link to society because he talks about how everyone, no matter rich or poor, needs wood. This is a good point because it puts him relative with everyone else because it is an element of survival. He really learned to appreciate wood and trees, especially because he wrote pages on it!
Posted by: Ashley Holtzer at October 5, 2005 09:12 PM
stacy-actually, i think Thoreau is saying that wood is still considered a valuable resource, regarless of the advances in society. wood is still valued, and sometimes extremely expensive, regardless of all the technology that we have today. we could have all the supercomputers in the world to design our buildings and homes, but if we have nothing to build them with, what the use?
Posted by: LaurenEtling at October 5, 2005 09:37 PM