Walden Spring Analysis

The sense of place in society is determined by where a person is surrounded. People usually lose a sense of where they are in the current society. Instead they start to synchronize themselves with their surroundings. From Walden’s excerpt “Spring”, it strongly emphasized on the surroundings where a person lives in. “In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.” It described spring as a series of various animations. There are birds, squirrels, frogs, and tortoises interacting peacefully with the environment, which makes the entire surrounding a place full of vitality. At that moment everyone would probably be enjoying the great ecological balance. More importantly, their sense of place in society is already been determined by their
Many people chose to pursue their life in finding the ideal place to live in. Usually people would ask themselves: “What do I want to do?” “What do I want to achieve?” or “What kind of life I want to live?”. According to Walden’s excerpt “Pond in Winter”, nature answers everything in relation to people’s morality. “Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.” The person throughout the excerpt kept on exploring the environment and seeking to discover his sense of place at that particular situation. For example in the process of exploring the depth of the pond at various spots, he realizes that he want to become a wild fisherman, who is close to nature rather than society. This also symbolized a fisherman that a pond is needed in order to sustain its living needs, which also represents the person’s sense of connection to nature and its sense of determination into lifestyle that he is willing to