Thoughts on Labor Day 2013 Hesiod said the first mortals were made of gold. That would be totally good news but Kronos was king of heaven and had a habit of eating his own children, so it was wise to exercise caution. Otherwise these […]
Posts Tagged ‘Thoreau’
WORK, WORK, WORK
September 2, 2013
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Tags: Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, Henry Ford, John Masefield, John Maynard Keynes, Labor Day, Louisa May Alcott, Man With the Hoe, Ovid, Thoreau, Women and Work, Work and Slavery
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It Was Never Easy Being Green
May 13, 2010You’d think nature worship went back to the Beginning–whenever that was, and we decry pollution, have national parks and license hunting. And the English and Europeans come here to “get away from it all,” find a more pristine life and fewer people. Doesn’t that all mean something? Well, yes, but things changed along the way, […]
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Tags: " Chief Standing Bear, Charles Reich and "Greening of America, conservation, Environment, Green movement, John Muir, Native Americans, preservation, Rachel Carson, settlement of America, Sierra Club, Teddy Rooseveldt, Thoreau, William Bradford
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Ichabod's Kin 