Higher Laws- Walden
What does he owe?
A mental perception to the commonly gross sense of taste
What did he feel when he say the woodchuck?
A strange sense of savage delight
The head waters of Mississippi and Columbia is?
A trapper
What did he see when he was coming home through the woods?
A woodchuck
Who is at the Falls of St. Mary?
A fisherman
What instrument did John Farmer hear?
A flute
The traveller on the prairie is?
A hunter
Why can't one speak simply of the necessary functions of human nature?
Because we are so degraded
Once the youth decides he wants to have a better life he does what?
Becomes a poet or a naturalist
What do youth first introduced to?
Being a hunter or fisher
He who distinguishes the true savior
Cannot be glutton
What was he tempted to do with that woodchuck?
Eat it
Chastity is the
Flowering of man
What did he want to do when he was at the pond?
Give some of his fish
What does the Hindoo lawgiver teach?
How to eat, drink, cohabit
Why would men feel shame?
If they are caught preparing with their own hands dinner
How could someone get poisoned?
If they put an extra condiment on the table
Goodness is the only
Investment that never fails
Who sat at his door one September evening?
John Farmer
How does he like to spend his days as?
Like the animals
When he was young, who was his closest acquaintance?
Nature
Did he pity the fish or the worms?
No
What does our nobleness do?
Refine a man'a features
He cannot fish with out feeling...
Self respect
What was his excuse for carrying a gun?
Studying ornithology and sought only new or rare birds
Nothing was to trivial for who?
The Hindoo lawgiver
Why does Thoreau believe that young boys should take up hunting?
The embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development
What did he pick up?
The lower jaw of a hog
What does a traveller learn?
The second hand and by halves and is poor authority
Everyman build what?
Their body (a temple)
Why does Thoreau believe that to preserve one's "poetic faculty" (higher nature one must "abstain from animal food"?
They should both sit down at same table- man's physical nature and spiritual self
What did John Farmer do?
Treat himself with respect
There is never an instant virtue between what?
Virtue and vice
What do only wise men drink?
Water
When is he not a fisherman?
When he does not have humanity or wisdom
When does Man flow to God?
When the channel of purity is open
Does he say yes to people who ask if their kids should hunt?
YES
Should Nature be overcome?
YES
Are we conscious of the animal inside of us?
Yes
