Thorough David Allen White Advisor: Mark Jarzombek Readers: Brandon Clifford, Caitlin Mueller Henry David Thoreau writes in the
end of March, 1845, I borrowed
first chapter of his book, Walden,
an axe and went down to the
that before he could begin work
woods by Walden Pond, nearest
on his house by the pond, he first
to where I intended to build my
had to borrow an axe. “Near the
house, and began to cut down
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some tall, arrowy pines, still in their youth, for timber.� This passage, which marks the moment when Thoreau first turns to describing building his house,
