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        <title><![CDATA[The main point of these quotes is that people need to live a simple...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main point of these quotes is that people need to live a simple life.
The reason that Thoreau went to Walden in the first place is because he wanted to live closer to nature and in a way that was not so materialistic as he thought that contemporary society was becoming.  He believed that an obsession with material things prevented people form focusing on what was really important.
Both of the quotes you cite illustrate this idea.  In the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please explicate the following quotes from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please explicate the following quotes from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau, a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson's, was a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau, a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson's, was a transcendentalist, who believed strongly in the power of nature and living simply.  He believed that our lives were too complicated, too "frettered away in detail," and that simplifying our lives would help us to understand its true meaning, and appreciate life for its value.  So, he devised a plan.  He went out to live on the property of a friend's, by himself in a shack, for...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Walden" what does the quote "I went to the woods because I wished to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Walden" what does the quote "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life" mean?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This quote comes from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.  In it, he is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This quote comes from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.  In it, he is arguing that we have come to be too materialistic (which is, of course, a large part of why he went to live by Walden Pond in the first place).
What he is pointing out in this quote is that we make things, like railroads, and we think that we are using them to our advantage.  But in reality, he says, we are slaves to them once we have them.  Instead of living life, we are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:13:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does this quote by Thoreau mean: "We do not ride on the railroad;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does this quote by Thoreau mean: "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:03:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There might have to be some qualification needed here.  Thoreau is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There might have to be some qualification needed here.  Thoreau is quite strong on his assertions that material wealth and the drive for materialism helps to get in the way of understanding the nature of truth(s) and self:"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."  This helps to highlight much of how Thoreau views wealth.  Poverty,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:06:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What advice does Thoreau offer to those who live in poverty?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What advice does Thoreau offer to those who live in poverty?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If you read the paragraph the quote was taken from, it's all there:
I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you read the paragraph the quote was taken from, it's all there:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this quote from "Walden," Henry David Thoreau is giving his advice...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this quote from "Walden," Henry David Thoreau is giving his advice about how to live one's life.
The basic idea of this quote )and the lines that come before it) is that one must live life to the fullest extent possible.  Thoreau is giving this as his reason for coming out into the woods.  He doesn't want to be in the position where, when he's about to die, he realizes that he never really lived.
So because of that, he wants to live life...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:39:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please explain the following quote from Thoreau's "Walden"  -- "live...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please explain the following quote from Thoreau's "Walden"  -- "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:39:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thoreau's attitude towards government is best expressed in his essay...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thoreau's attitude towards government is best expressed in his essay "Civil Disobedience."  This essay starts with a phrase that is commonly heard today: "That government is best which governs least."
As a Transcendentalist, Thoreau believed that people should follow their own consciences rather than doing what society expects of them.  This idea can very often be at odds with the idea of having a government.  In Thoreau's case, the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:56:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thoreau declared in his "Resistance to Civil Government," [later titled...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thoreau declared in his "Resistance to Civil Government," [later titled "Civil Disobedience"],"that government governs best that governs least."  Clearly, Thoreau understood the dangers of a "Big Brother" government that does not allow people to think for themselves, and the importance of individual responsibility. He, like other Transcendentalists, privileged the innate wisdom of the individual over church doctrine and law.  The thinking...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:53:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was Thoreau's attitude concerning the role of the government?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was Thoreau's attitude concerning the role of the government?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:38:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title of the second chapter of Thoreau's "Walden Pond" is "Where I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title of the second chapter of Thoreau's "Walden Pond" is "Where I lived and What I lived for." In this chapter Thoreau tells us plainly why he went to live in the woods:

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came  to die, to discover that I had not lived."

In this chapter he talks about how he once...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:10:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What revelation does Thoreau have  from one of the experiences in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What revelation does Thoreau have  from one of the experiences in the second chapter of his "Walden?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to Thoreauvian Ken Kifer, Thoreau's "Walden" was published to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to Thoreauvian Ken Kifer, Thoreau's "Walden" was published to express his philosophy of life.  Rather than having the desire to live a life with a goal of the acquisition of wealth, Thoreau saw the goal of life to be the exploration of the mind and the magnificent world around people. His voyage through life was much more inward than that of many others:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[For what reasons did Thoreau write "Walden"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For what reasons did Thoreau write "Walden"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm assuming that you don't quite understand the phrases and need some...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm assuming that you don't quite understand the phrases and need some interpretion?  If that's the case, I will try to help.  "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau is a very thought-provoking account of all of the things that he learned while living on his own in a tiny shack on a friend's pond.  The quotes above are just two of the profound sentiments that he expressed as a result of being close to nature, doing his own work for sustenance, and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:19:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I need help interpreting the following quotes from "Walden" by Henry...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I need help interpreting the following quotes from "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.]]></description>
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