An idea from Walden

In July 1846, walking to the village for a mended shoe, he was jailed for not paying a tax to a state that bought and sold people. He was out the next day and back in the woods in time for a huckleberry dinner. He never locked his door.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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