Thoreau makes a case for nature being a better companion than humans.
"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." (131)
"Next to use the grandest laws are continually being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman, who work we are." (130)
NOTE - ANAPHORA
I have occasional visits . . . from an old settler and original proprietor, who is reported to have dug Walden Pond, and stoned it, and fringed it with pine woods; who tells me stories of old time and of new eternity; and between us we manage to pass a cheerful evening with social mirth and pleasant views of things.
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