Comments on: “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5672 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 11 May 2026 20:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5672&cpage=1#comment-41194 girldetective Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:01:33 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5672#comment-41194 These passages are why I think people need to persevere and read the book. Tiny house is fine if you have no kids. Or books. My house is 1800 square feet on 1/10 acre and even that is too much for me to care for but just enough that my husband and I have our own spaces, can co-exist with 2 rambunctious boys, and have the television stashed in the basement for compartmentalization. These passages are why I think people need to persevere and read the book.

Tiny house is fine if you have no kids. Or books. My house is 1800 square feet on 1/10 acre and even that is too much for me to care for but just enough that my husband and I have our own spaces, can co-exist with 2 rambunctious boys, and have the television stashed in the basement for compartmentalization.

]]> By: jame http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5672&cpage=1#comment-41190 jame Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:22:39 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5672#comment-41190 You've actually made a very strong case for the book with the passages you've chosen. I've never read this one, and may never read it, but his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" changed my life when I read it just after high school, and got me into a lot of trouble with my father. I wonder how much of an influene he is on the Tiny House movement which I've been following for some time. I like the idea of the simplified small living spaces which seem right up Thoreau's alley, or woodland path.... You’ve actually made a very strong case for the book with the passages you’ve chosen. I’ve never read this one, and may never read it, but his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” changed my life when I read it just after high school, and got me into a lot of trouble with my father.

I wonder how much of an influene he is on the Tiny House movement which I’ve been following for some time. I like the idea of the simplified small living spaces which seem right up Thoreau’s alley, or woodland path….

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