“Every morning was a joyful invitation to make my life as simple, and I might say innocent, as nature itself- even” (Thoreau, 2, 3). Thoreau begins this statement by referring to each morning as a joyful invitation; which I believe means he sees this as a welcome opportunity to achieve his goal of making his life “just as simple”. This means he doesn't need the luxuries associated with today's life. Instead, he only needs the necessities that can be provided by nature itself to be happy. He continues by fighting for the innocence that nature provides, without the corruption of an ever-changing world. Thoreau ends with a capital letter Nature, I feel like he is showing his great respect for Nature and clearly shows that he does not take Nature for granted. Through his experience living in the forest, I believe he discovered how pure nature was and how much society has corrupted the world. Thoreau then goes on to explain his reasoning for going into the forest, which further supports his earlier criticism of society and his respect for nature. “I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to face only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach me, and not, when I died , discover that I had not lived.” In other words, he went into the woods to learn to live with a purpose different from the common belief that life is meant to be lived to advance society. By adopting the answers that nature had to give, he changed the way of living with the essential facts of life, rather than what society promoted, such as money and possessions. This brings us to another example of the lack of independent thought produced by members of society. “Millions of people are awake enough for physical work; but only one in a million people are awake enough to