This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry David Thoreau. It's a quote from Thoreau's "Walden" , in which he says, "I'm not a poet, I'm a scientist." In other words, Thoreau is a scientist, but he's not a scientist. He's also not a philosopher, because he doesn't believe in science as a scientific method. Still, he does believe that it's important for people to be able to understand the world around them. In this chapter, we find out that Thoreau has been writing poetry for over a hundred years, and his poems have been published in a variety of literary journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune. He also wrote a book about his experiences as a young man, "Alone in the World," which was published in the early 1900s. The novel's title is a nod to the fact that Thoreau was born in the United States, and that his mother was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist, anti-Semitic organization. In the poem, Thoreau says that he'd like to be a poet because he believes in the power of the written word to change people's lives for the better. He wants to help people, and he wants to do it in a way that will make them feel good about themselves. He hopes that by writing poetry, he can make people feel better about the world. In fact, he wants people to