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Henry David Thoreau; Simple living for its own sake.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 19960712
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"He was a Transcendentalist crackpot and phony who insisted on going back to flint and steel when he had a matchbox in his pocket," the poet-essayist James Russell Lowell once wrote of Henry David Thoreau, "a fellow to the loonies who thought . . . the substitution of hooks and eyes for buttons would save the world."

It is hard to picture Thoreau amused, but a rap like that might have done the trick - combining such crisp caricature of his lifestyle with utter misunderstanding of its purpose.

Of all the lessons to be taken from Thoreau, whose birthday is today, this is ...

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