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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070210
Author:David Mehegan

Book Review

The biologist Edward O. Wilson begins his 2002 book, "The Future of Life," with a letter to Henry David Thoreau, telling him what poor stewards of the natural world we have been. "Now, prophet of the conservation movement, mentor of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.," he writes, "accept this tribute tardily given." But in the next paragraph, he writes, "On the other hand, you were not a great naturalist. ... Even had you kept entirely to natural history during your short life, you would ... be scarcely remembered today."

Yet Thoreau is remembered for his love of nature, his ...

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