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From: Canadian Dimension
Date: 19970501
Author:Austin-Smith, Brenda

The modern business environment is growing complicated as more and more innovations are developed to assist workers in their jobs. This scenario contradicts the views of Henry David Thoreau regarding the need for simple living.

"Simplify, simplify," wrote Thoreau in 1854, having gone into the woods near Walden Pond to live in a small house of his own making, on whatever he could make or grow himself. The decision to live simply was born of Thoreau's dismay at the way work had replaced living as the purpose of existence in 19th century New England. Reading the description of his years in ...

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