mY LifE iN iRoNY

"How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?" ~Thoreau

Saturday, June 19, 2004

Walden Henry David Thoreau (1845, but published 1854)
-transcendentalist with Ralph Waldo Emerson
-comparison to Native Americans
-clothes
-shelter
-sharing/borrowing
-walking
-food
-man=animal, adapts
-individual (go alone)
-being alive
-living simply
-ancients (classics)
-slavery
-view of Gov (No pay taxes, only people that bothered him...rather they run amok with him than the other way around)
-war (ants)

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