We can still read Walden, even memorize the chapters, translate them into our own clumsy modern language, but we can’t live there, any more than Henry Thoreau could. “One world at a time,” and it’s this messy, messed
up world, and we’re all in it together.
-Rev. Victoria Safford, “A Fond Farewell to Walden”
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