"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I'm honestly no quite sure what this means, but I am going to take a stab at it. Most men lead lives that aren't really fulfilling. Later Thoreau says,"You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns." I love this quote. If you spend enough time in the woods, you can see "inhabitants" like the animals. For some odd reason, this reminds me of a disney princess who can just sing a song, and all the animals come, like in Cinderella, or Enchanted. Nature is a way to fulfill the life of the members of society. Thoreau in comparison to Emerson is definitely much more difficult to understand, in my opinion. Thoreau's writing style is much less to the point, and much less concise. I attribute this to the fact that he was all alone in solitude for a couple years. He had no one to talk to, and I believe that this was why his writing was so thought-through.
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