Daily Archives: July 13, 2017

Contemplating the State of Things on Thoreau’s 200th Birthday

Thoreau's Walden Pond

By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Henry David Thoreau is one of the founding fathers of American activism and civil rights as well as science and environmental writing. Clearly my own life and career are inspired by my own reading of Thoreau. I mean I got rid of most of my worldly possessions about…