The Accidental Fire That Sparked a Deliberate Life
A story about Henry David Thoreau that history has forgotten
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5 min readSep 21, 2022
As wildfire season continues here in the Western United States, here is a story about one of our first and greatest guardians of the environment. He also happens to be someone that started a forest fire.
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