After reading paragraph 1, readers can infer that Thoreau believes people should make their own way in life rather than follow others.
Which detail from the text best supports this inference?
"Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one."
"I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct."
"How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!"
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
