When i wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, i lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which i had built myself, on the shore of walden pond, in concord, massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. i lived there two years and two months. at present i am a sojourner in civilized life again. which best describes how this paragraph relates to the rest of “economy”?