Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essays by Henry David ThoreauMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wonderful collection of essays where it was easy to picture Thoreau wandering the woods, hiking, and in awe of nature
When I do crossword puzzles, it seems to me eels in general have such a wide variety of words that it is an echo of a time (European?) when eels were a much larger part of human diet and culture. Similarly in the New England anthology, there is so much reverent and detailed on apples that it feels like a lost world of gripple apples and the boisterous apple Wassail.
The book ends with his 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience" where he wrote:
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
He argued that casting a ballot is a passive, weak gesture that leaves deep moral questions to the mercy of a majority vote rather than taking direct, principled action. I read this coming back from doing my early voting this year.
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