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Thoreau's [|Walden] describes his living two years in the woods and how he feels it is better. He alludes to this with his quote "It makes but little difference whether you are commited to a farm or the county jail." His stay in the forest seems to be another world to him, perhaps another that is simpler where his time and reality are different and meld together. He also was able to look at nature and regular life as being connected, "The life in us is the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood theparched uplands..."