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Henry Thoreaus Where I Lived and What I Lived For and E.B. vacuouss Once to a greater extent to the LakeAt first glance, Henry Thoreaus, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, and E.B. washrags, Once More to the Lake, have nothing in common. After several readings however, one deal interpret that both authors have the same message. Even though Thoreau and White use extremely different styles, they both portray temperament as the simplest room of life. Thoreau writes an argumentative essay in the 1800s trying to stock society to simplify by going back to relying on record instead of technology (50 Essays pg. 417). White writes a 1900s narrative active his visit to his childhood lake where he shockingly discovers how nature reveals the means of life. go Once More to the Lake by E.B. White is a subtle delineation that equals nature to simplicity, Where I Lived and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau is a clean-cut approach in comparing nature to simplicity. Henry David Tho reau, an advocate of realness and self-sufficiency, performed an experiment in order to develop a theory on the role of nature in society. One of the outcomes of this experiment is his essay, Where I Lived and What I Lived For. Thoreau argues that hu bitity is too dependent on technology and the government. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest, (50 Essays pg. 417). Thoreau explains that plurality do not need educational institutions to teach mathematics because nature has already given us the tools to learn all subjects. Nature gives us our common sense therefore, school is unnecessary. Where I Lived and What I Lived For also criticizes the position that humanity depends too mu... ....B. White both have a main(prenominal) goal--to reverse the blindness of humanity to nature. These authors use nature to explain the essence of life. People currently strive to obtain the virtually money, t he most food, the most of everything. Humans originated from nature but it has become foreign to society because of the way that man has committed himself to the economics of the nation. Henry David Thoreau states in Where I Lived and What I Lived For, simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, (50 Essays pg. 417). E.B. Whites Once More to the Lake is an example of what nature force out do to a man. He came to grips with his own mortality at the lake. White then began to appreciate his life and the simplicity of it. These two essays inadvertently go hand in hand where Thoreau defines and White exemplifies. Thoreau and White both compare nature to everyday life, but at different capacities.