pg. 205 wldn

Text ...I have found repeatedly, of late years, that i cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect. I have tried it again and again. I have skill at it, and, lime many of my fellows, a certain instinct for it, which revives fro time to time, but always when i have done i feel that it would have been better if i had not fished

This is weird because to live as simply and as cheaply as Thoreau does he would have to fish to sustain himself as well as hunt However I suppose that Thoreau starts to feel like he is working and taking advantage of nature rather than being being with nature to get away from society learn from it. It could also appeal hover to Thoreau that eating fish and meet would be a more complicated life style than he wishes to live and thinks he could live simple enough of potatoes, rice, and bread. The idea of killing animals and fish is also like killing nature, it is the same as if he were to drain Walden Pond to make a pool.