Thoreau should have been a little more connected to nature by actually hunting and gathering, finding his own resources, and exploring more of what nature has to offer. Though I do know he was connected to nature in a different way. By describing what he saw, what he did, who he interacted with, and why. In the chapter “Winter Animals”, Thoreau describes the ponds in winter as, “... firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them.”, and described Flint’s Pond as, “ ...so unexpectedly wide and so strange that I could think of nothing but Baffin's Bay.” Thoreau lifestyle he chose while living in his small cabin was very simplistic, he didn’t
