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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

by Henry David Thoreau · 1854

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Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement — a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.

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adult
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short · 112 pages
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