Thought Thoreau begins this piece by talking about his walks and ends it on the same, it is not truly what the piece is about. It is more about moving forward and humanity moving forward. He talks about the myths that some cultures are set upon and what they meant to the people who had them. When he talked about the Hindoos believing that the earth is on an elephant on a tortoise on a serpent, he thought that it wasn't a surprise that they found a fossil of a tortoise large enough to support an elephant. Though I found no proof of that being true online, Thoreau explains that he likes crazy beliefs like that so he himself may even have known that it may not be true.
When I started this piece, I could not help but think of my own walks. I do not often go on walks alone but prefer to go on them with friends and family. To me, they are a chance to talk, to unwind, to listen, and to see without other things right there with us begging for attention. They are times to forget homework, forget your job, forget everything. And not forget as in don't think or talk about them but as in to stop trying to work through everything in your head. To empty your head of the things that bog you down for just a short while so that when you go back to them, you can have a fresh point of view for them.
Thoreau is able to see things that I cannot in this piece. The different topics that he somehow connects to walking totally leaves me in the dust as I scramble to try to catch up to what he is trying to do.
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