Thoreau literally went home on the weekends.
Maybe you could live a solitary life, on your own, using only what your land provides you, but there's no way you could access modern health care, then.
Same goes for Internet access (all those subway cables were laid by somebody, probably subsidised by some government, at least partially).
Same goes for roads, and so on.
This is a myth very few people could live because the others don't and one way or another support them.