This book's narrator asserts that "a living dog is better than a dead lion" and advises letting eachperson "step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away.
This book's narrator asserts that "a living dog is better than a dead lion" and advises letting eachperson "step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away." In one scene in this book,the narrator discusses the desire for wealth with John Farmer during a rainstorm. In anotherepisode, the narrator watches a hundred men cut blocks of ice to send across the world. The narratorof this work lives within earshot of the (*) Fitchburg Railway and is visited by the illiterate Alec Therien,who lives an "animal life," and the poet Ellery Channing. Its narrator claims that "the mass of men leadlives of quiet desperation." For 10 points, name this transcendentalist memoir about living in a cabin in theConcord woods, a work by Henry David Thoreau.
This book's narrator asserts that "a living dog is better than a dead lion" and advises letting eachperson "step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away.
Walden; or Life in the Woods