Walden pg. 135-168

These chapters focus mainly on society. First, it talks about the difference between how society treats visitors versus how the Indians treat their visitors. In society, you only provide for your visitors if there are less than twenty of them, but the indians provide for them no matter how many there are, even if they almost don't have enough to feed their visitors. For Thoreau, living alone at Walden pond means less visitors and less of society in his life. Thoreau's Canadian friend is very happy because he is an individual and is away from society, but he is intellectually asleep. When Thoreau does have people who come to visit, he tries to encourage them to think.
Society also has an influence on the way that people plant fields, but Thoreau has his own ideas on how it should be done. He takes it slow and is always planting. Thoreau is like his field because he is the connection between nature and society. For him, the things of society are at a distance so they don't have much of an effect on his field. Planting the beans in his field is something that he does as an individual, so it is something that he feels good about. The beans are like the individual: in order to grow they have to keep out certain things (woodchucks-society). When Thoreau goes into the town that is close to the pond, he has to be careful to not stay for too long because society is a danger to the individual.