simplicity and awe

I am going to write about how the simplicity Thoreau talks about is totally wrong. The more I write more I realize that this is kind of a combination of talking about what my draft will be and the draft itself. One of his main ideas is about how people should just go out and live in the woods, and how society is totally useless. Why should everyone go out into the woods and just sit there their whole lives? Then nothing would get accomplished and people would get bored. Everyone wants something to occupy their time. If I were to sit in the woods for my entire life I would totally get bored. One of the quotes I am thinking about using is "Why should we live with such a hurry and waste of life?" In this quote Thoreau is saying that we should not waste our lives by doing things in society but really, why should we waste our lives sitting in a shack in nature doing nothing. That truly is a waste of life. One of my other ideas is that of being like a child and being fascinated by everything like you have just seen it for the first time. The quotes are from Emerson's Nature and say "In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man" and "The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shine in the eye and the heart of the child." The idea of seeing everything as if it was the first time is simply ridiculous. Sure, someone can still be awed by something after they have seen it once, nothing matches that first time. This is similar to living in Telluride. Sure, every time I come into town I can say "Wow, that is beautiful", but it will never be the same as that very first time. That's what I am thinking about writing about.