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“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.

There are so many (even scholarly) views of Henry David Thoreau, his life and work, that one can pretty much view him as one will.

Words as walls and ramparts.

One of the most pervasive and deep aspects of talking and conversation of which people are most unaware, are the patterns of internations they use.

It is certainly possible to inquire and consider – if conclusions will still be disputed – which, for example, 19th century personality in America, England, France, Germany, Russia, had the deepest insights as to the human being in/and the world. While most then and now lived by shared general ideas.

How despairingly rare it is to find a scholar not thinking, living, being and writing – quite contentedly – in his departmentalized portion of life and world.

Revealing of mass American mentality: the latest periodic courtroom dramas.

She was growing – and it was likely it was already grown – a soulful, feeling psyche in the child. It was one of the few times I watched a clear instance of the transmission, or the growing, or the sharing, of “Russian soul”.

To gradually recognize and consciously be through the personal and social mask inherited in upbringing.

Ordinary scholars studying “ordinary men” who perpetrated extraordinary evil.