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Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance, yet his life has been obscured by myth. The author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, he was brilliant but flawed, idealistic but opinionated. A writer, scientist and activist, his words resonate urgently with today’s challenges as humanity looks for ways to live in harmony with nature—and each other.
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00:00Every now and then, an essay continues to speak to people.
00:04Henry David Thoreau wrote about the impact
00:07of industrialization on nature and society.
00:10He tried to live a simple and intentional existence.
00:14I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
00:18Thoreau says, you can't even ask the deep questions
00:21if you don't stop to figure out what the deep questions are.
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