In Walden, when are two times that Thoreau suggests people live too fast?

Thoreau writes that we
tend to behave

As if the main object were to talk fast and
not to talk sensibly. We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some
weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad,
flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. After all, the
man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages [. .
.].

Thoreau would rather have us focus on what we are
saying rather than the speed with which we are saying it. Why do things need to move faster? How
does this truly benefit us? We are in such a hurry to get where we are going and to say what we
are saying that we are not necessarily paying attention to the most important parts of life.
Moving fast does not mean that we are doing the...