Thoreau wishes everyone to be committed to Nature
a. He wants us to saunter (walk slowly) through Nature.
i. He wants us to be connected to Nature
i. He wants us to be the heroes/knights/champions of sauntering/Walking
i. We have to walk a long way- he jokes that half an hour isn’t enough.
3. He spends four hours or more a day
3. He doesn’t understand how people can sit inside all day- if he tries, he wants to die, and he doesn’t understand how workers and mothers don’t kill themselves.