Thoreau starts this chapter talking about how, at a certain age, people start to "consider every spot as a possible site for a house.  He writes that he even started surveying land a considerable amount away from where he currently lived. He imagined that he bought any and all lands that he sat on. "Wherever I sat, there I might live.  He finally bought this farm called the Hollowell place. What really intrigued him were all the small, raggedy details of this farmhouse and all of the land. It was far from the village. It didn't have any close neighbors. It had apple trees and a barn on the property. The first house Thoreau had ever owned was a tent that he moved around in. So with this newly acquired house, he wants to try and put "some progress toward settling into the world.  He goes on about the birds that frequently visit his garden and the orchard. He also had song birds around all the time. He writes that he befriended the birds and that's why they came around often. Thoreau lived near a pond and the fog, after it has rained, would cover the water and surrounding land. He called it a small lake. He could see the tops of mountains when looking over towards the northwest when standing on his toes, but the other way appeared like "a thin crust insulated and floated even by this small sheet of introverting water.  Thoreau woke up each day trying to make his life as simple has Nature was. He religiously bathed in the pond every morning and it was one of the best things he did. "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.  He wrote that all creative ideas and things and memorable events come about in the morning. It is all about the atmosphere. He writes, "to be awake is be alive.  He continues on with this idea that we, as a people, need to know about keep ourselves awake. We need to know how to be awake. Do something that helps the world or makes the day better. The main reason that man i