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From: Redlands Daily Facts
Date: 20050806
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Henry David Thoreau was one of the first in our new nation to share his strong beliefs about the destruction of our nation's natural resources. He wrote essays and stories in an effort to awaken the need to protect these environments that housed those resources. His time spent at Walden Pond was eventually put onto paper and became the book that he may be best known for.

In "The Trouble With Henry," there is an underlying theme of the struggles that society was experiencing with materialism that was being fueled by the industrialization of America. Another theme that this book carries is that ...

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