“As Robert Richardson writes, ‘In the end, Walden is not about submission to nature. …Nature teaches us to want to reach beyond nature.’ Independence is not found by dissolving into the natural landscape but rather by respecting, enjoying, learning from, and finally rising above nature.” America’s Bachelor Uncle Thoreau, and the American Polity, Bob Pepperman Taylor, p. 95.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 