Project Gutenberg #205
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
1854Thoreau's Walden chapters plus Civil Disobedience, prepared from Project Gutenberg HTML for section-by-section reading.
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Chapter 3 — Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Central question Why live at Walden Pond at all? Main argument Thoreau explains that he wants to live deliberately, face life directly, and strip away inessential...
a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.