Thoreau "Walking"

I have read some of Thoreau's work before and I just love the way the describes things in his work. I felt as those this essay was very descriptive. Thoreau gave the reader a perspective that you would not evan imagine about the wild and nature. Starting off his essay, Thoreau describes how the wilderness is part of us and always has been even in the past. "Our ancestors were savages."(141) Thoreau uses this as a way to show that everyone and everything that we are as human being was derived from the wilderness itself. He goes on the show that hunting and doing everything like it should be done in the wild is a more convenient way to provide food. He compares hunting in the wilderness to eating stall-fed beef. 

Through out the essay Thoreau tries to express to the reader that the wild and nature is a better environment and asset than civilization. He goes to great lengths to provide a detailed impression of his yard and that he would rather live in a swamp. What i thought was the most interesting part was when he was describing how town upon town just piles onto each other as life goes on. He is trying to show that nature and the wild is always going to be here were as ever so often town after town dies and new ones later come.