"And he was a poor student
who once lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove and spent his whole life
searching for them; a moral philosopher; a patriot and a dissident; a prose
stylist so exquisite Dickinson, Frost, Tolstoy, Proust, Carson, Robinson, Dillard,
and Schulz admired his sentences; who tried his best to live and write
deliberately, and succeeded better than most; an epic perambulist and a
committed abolitionist; a sufferer of tuberculosis from his youth to his death
who nevertheless ascended Mount Katahdin; . . ."
A beutifully written rebuttal to a well-written teardown of Thoreau. I recommend both because, like Thoreau, they force you to see things differently and more clearly.
https://newrepublic.com/article/123162/everybody-hates-henry-david-thoreau
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