Thoreau is an author who calls out ‘simplicity’ when he himself is a complex man. Going to the woods to rethink about the facts of life, the virtues, and the genuine meanness of it is a hard decision not made by many common, average men. He suggests, “In that case did Thoreau actually have one meal in the woods? Did he take action in his words? Later he changes his mind to jump back to the troubles of life. He realizes he has Before that, did he grasp all the values he sought in the beginning when he first decided to go to the woods? It certainly says he has “wished to live deliberately…see if I could not learn what [life] had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”, yet it only took him a week to figure it out or run away from it. Despite all the conflicts, Thoreau’s experience with Walden teaches a lesson: Everything comes easy if you take an easier perspective of life. Nature is kept simple, therefore the world should be less complex.
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