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Robin Waldun
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Thoreau’s Meditations

If you were a farmer from 1845 to 1847 in Concord, you might notice an eccentric and ragged man wandering the land around a pond. This man was Henry David Thoreau, and in 1845 he ran away from all the noise in Massachusetts and isolated himself in a little cabin overlooking Walden Pond. One day, a local passed by Thoreau’s cabin on…

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