Some have asked what I got to eat if I did not feel lonesome if I was not afraid and the like. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. Walden Study Text Chapter I: Economy Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
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