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Thoreau’s Rainbow
A questionable description in a classic text prompts reflection on the relationships among nature, science and art.
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Recently, I finally read Henry David Thoreau’s classic Walden, an enduring, complex work often viewed, in part, as a celebration of nature. Thoreau’s observations of nature do indeed abound in the book—and the editor of the edition I read, Philip Van Doren Stern, praises him as “a perceptive observer and a first-rate note-taker, far better than most professionals in the field …”
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