henry david thoreau born in massachusetts was going into adulthood as the economic and natural landscape of new england was undergoing changes brought by industrial revolution. in 1849, he published a short book, a week on the concorde and merrimack rivers, based on a book trip he and his brother john made from concorde, massachusetts to concorde, new hampshire, 10 years earlier. he lamented how the dams erected on the new england rivers had prevented fish like the salmon and shad from swimming upstream to spawn. they had virtually disappearedp. had, this man has perchance let them free to enter. in another essay titled walking, published in 1862, henry david through a limited deforestation that was taking place in new england as industrial nation took old. to say in newmed england that fewer and fewer pigeons visit us every year, he wrote. our forest for is nothing for them. in walden, a two-year stay in a self built log cabin on the shores of walden pond during the 1840's, henry david thoreau ominously described the great symbol of the industrial age, the locomotive, as a traveling dem

in this case, works by ralph waldo emerson, who was the mentor to thoreau. knowbly everybody, if they any work of american literature, they might remember, it would be walden pond. and certainly it's a book that continues to resonate for generation after generation, a book which talks about the experiment that thoreau took to live by walden pond in massachusetts. he was there for just over two years, and as he said, he wished to live deliver early. he wished to go and live simply and be at one with nature. he kept very careful diaries. he could be eccentric, but he kept careful diaries about nature, what he was observing about his own thoughts about man's relationship to nature. and he wrote a book in the there,of that surgeon but he also wrote about the trip itself. and that became walden or life in the woods. you can see here a page from the manuscript. and the huntington has seven of what i believe were eight drafts that he did of this book. they are single sheets. you can see the writing. he writes very quickly and then he corrects. bemarks out an area t

and david thoreau accompanied one up. her message protect the environment now sixteen year old nor mother and thousands of other high school students have come to berlin city center to protest they want germany to do more when it comes to climate change policy. to clean up under such as old as the president of the south that climate change must be stopped it starts today and the day that's goes doesn't automatically. green party leaders are watching closely as thousands of students are calling for action and no one has some very concrete ideas when it comes to people's daily lives in connection with protecting the anybody. yes yes yes. thank you just a few in fact so much it's unbelievable that it's cheaper to fly than to take the train oh yeah i. know also finds the government's plan to phase out cool energy to slow she doesn't agree that climate protection policies lead to unemployment many demonstrators criticized that the last coal plant will be shut down in twenty third whether it's in berlin or brussels politics has

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berlin there were plenty of schoolchildren taking part in that climate protest pending and david thoreau accompanied one of them who says that she wants the german government to do more to safeguard the future for her and her generation. her message protect the environment now sixteen year old nor a mother and thousands of other high school students have come to berlin city center to protest they want germany to do more when it comes to climate change policy. to clean up under. that's as old as the president of the south that climate change must be stopped before it's too late in the day that's going to send out a mass of. green party leaders are watching closely as thousands of students are calling for action and no one has some very concrete ideas when it comes to people's daily lives in connection with protecting the anybody. yes yes yes. thank you just a few in fact so much it's unbelievable that it's cheaper to fly than to take the train oh yeah. no i also finds the government's plan to phase out cool energy to slow she doesn't agree that climate protection policies lead to unemploy