Walden Ch 6 Flashcards
He doesn’t need to
Comfort others
People would visit him to learn about his
Lifestyle
Three chairs
One for solitude
Two for friendship
Three for society
Not happy with the small size of his house only when he wants to speak with someone about
Big ideas which requires a lot of space
To communicate most intimately with some people we need to be so
Far apart that we can’t hear each other speaking
Best room
Pine woods behind his house
If 20 people come no one speaks of
Eating out of politeness
He is deterred from visiting people who make a big show of
Feeding him
Had more visitors while living in the woods than any other time in his life but fewer came on
Trivial business
French Canadian woods chopper reads homer but has no real
Intellectual appreciation of it
Thoreau speaks to a reformer and tries to get him to
Look at things spiritually
Thoreau suggests that there are men of
Genius in the lower grades of life
Thoreau talks to a pauper who tells Thoreau that the lord by his will has made him
Deficient of intellect
A runaway slave comes and Thoreau helps
Send him north
Girls boys and young women are happier in the woods while men of business are concerned about
Solitude snd employments and distance
