Chapter 7: The Bean-Field

Chapter 7: The Bean-Field

1. Thoreau has the daily work of hoeing his bean field.

   • Thoreau is at war with the weeds that threaten his beans.
   • This what connects him to the earth.
   • This isn't simply just talk about forming beans but how this relates to Transcendentalism.
     • Making this into an exercise of morality allusions to Rana de Vachis implying the spritiual and philosophiocal side of the Walden.
       • Discovery of past cultures on Thoreau's soil leads to the expression of another idea of Transcendentalism. .
         • Farming as Thoreau called "husbandry" had scared rights of the poetry us, once great art.
           • A new pursed with greed and haste who only went large forms and crops to sell. It has been ruined.
             • Thoreau states that there should not be cultural ownership of land but people should live in harmony with the land.
               • culture
                 • Gardening Thoreau finda arrowheads and reminants of a past civilization land a believe he distruibuted the spirits.
                   • "I disturbed the aches of unchronical nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens" (Thoreau 175).

2. Spirituality

   • In relation to his love of the Earth, Thoreau describes himself as Antoeus who was Libyc's mighty giant.
     • Thoreau is planting the berries his farming tool is plaing the song. Rones des faches.
       • It's a melody often played on a horn.
         • Representing Nestedgia a yearning have.
           • "My beans, though so many more then I wanted They attached me to the Earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus" (Thoreau 173).

3. Plants 2$ of acres of beans, potatoes, turnips, peas.

   • works brave feet
   • Occasionally stops to preserve wildlife.
   • Settles into daily routine of farmer
     • soil was previously used
       • found arrowheads pottery, other artifacts
     • Often finds himself enjoying sounds of nature, occasionally hears military exercises.
       • feels reassurred
         • his liberties feel protected
           • feels distant from necessity of war.
       • spent $15 on crops, earns $24
         • trades beans for rice
         • he cultivates crops to develop self-discipline, not to earn money
           • care little about he state of the crop of men"
           • cultivation of the farmer makes husbandry worthwhile
           • nature does not care if crops fail or succeed.
             • weeds are blessing to hungry birds.
             • farmers should accept nature's blessings.