Where I Lived, and What I Lived for: Chenel Roosa ENGL 1020

This reading by Thoreau, was a little boring to me. Though some parts I find to be some beautiful writing, so that is mainly what I am going to be talking about. In the first paragraph of this piece, he says "Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly." I really like this because I just think it is very beautifuly written. Also, his decriptions of place in this piece is very good. I really like a lot of his decriptions of where he is or what he is talking about. In paragraph four there is part where he is talking about place he wants to buy and describes some of it, "the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant; the hollow lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors i should have." There is sentence that is also on this page, in paragraph eight, "The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music." He describes things so well. This description, just of the wind is so beautiful. In one sentence he gives a wonderful description of the wind. This shows what a great descriptive writer Thoreau is. In this one chapter from Walden, he gives so many wonderful descriptions.