Why Walden matters now
is the title of this remarkable Boston Globe op ed by Wen Stephenson, a former editor of the paper's Ideas section. He is go to Walden before heading into Boston
to join the Moving Planet rally at Columbus Park and call for the world’s leaders to get serious about moving beyond fossil fuels.
But this is not about environmentalism. Stephenson makes the point that Walden and Thoreau's other writings were about
“Nature,’’ as he wrote in “Walking’’ and “man as an inhabitant, or part and parcel of Nature.’’ It was our relationship, as human beings - physically, morally, spiritually, politically - to the world in which
