Besides, he reasoned, why did he need to own a farm? All that is of real value to the individual in living on a farm - close, personal contact with the spiritually invigorating influences of nature - can be had for nothing. But he followed his own advice, as expressed in "Economy," and avoided purchasing a farm because it would inevitably tie him down financially and complicate his life. He considered many sites and even exercised his Yankee shrewdness by haggling over the price with several farmers.
The narrator tells us that for many years he thought of buying a farm in the Concord countryside.
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