Thoreau is walking away from industrialization and into a state of wonder. He chases the idea of reverting back to the "good old days" when the landscape was free of logging crews tearing down the tall pine trees and being turned into a different kind of tree almost - telephone poles. It provides an interesting contrast to think of how the things we take from an area are reused in it later. Trees also provide the walls for the homes in which we live. I think Thoreau does not focus on the positive things that come from going into the future.
As for the style in which Thoreau writes, I feel that it is almost a question and answer style. He speaks with a rhetorical tone that allows the reader to engage and question in their own mind what it is that they feel about life and nature. Can you imagine walking 15 or 20 miles a day and not seeing something new or learning something about yourself? What if we didn't have a building surrounding us? What if we were always surrounded by nature alone? Thoreau wants us to live in a dream world where all humans can commune with nature and I do not believe this is possible because it is not nature that we are to be communing with, but rather God.
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