The document discusses ideas from Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, contrasting Thoreau's positions with opposing views. It presents quotes from Walden about simplicity, humility, individualism, and rejecting materialism. Thoreau advocated living deliberately and simply, avoiding excess details that distract from life's essentials. He believed people should think for themselves and not conform to the views of others. The document provides the quotes alongside images relating to the different themes.

1. By Shiv Oza, B Day
AFFLUENZA: HOW THOREAU
WARNED AND ADVISED US

2. “Our life is frittered away by detail.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

3. “Our life is frittered away by detail.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

4. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

5. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”
WALDEN’S POSITION

6. “We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

7. “We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

8. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

9. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

10. “The intellect is a cleaver.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

11. “The intellect is a cleaver.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

12. “This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

13. “This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

14. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads…”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

15. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads…”
WALDEN’S POSITION

16. “The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so
with the paths which the mind travels.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

17. “The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so
with the paths which the mind travels.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

18. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

19. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

20. “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

21. “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

22. “Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

23. “Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

24. “I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.”
OPPOSITION TO WALDEN

25. “I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.”
WALDEN’S POSITION

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