Word: thoreau
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...Henry David Thoreau...
...founding pastor, Tim LaHaye, in January. The sacking followed a series of disputes about school policy that, in Barton's view, illustrate the dark side of the Christian school movement. First there was the narrowness of the curriculum. Says Barton: "Almost all authors considered humanists-Emerson, Thoreau, even Shakespeare-are often eliminated wholesale from the curriculum at many schools." When Barton opposed sending the school band to a political rally for Ronald Reagan, he was overruled by the superintendent. When he began to discuss the role of partisan politics in the school with other teachers, the district...
...told his parents of his plans to go to Calcutta. Mahoney recalls his mother actually "was sort of relieved to find that I was going to India." It seems his older brother had frightened his mother shortly before telling her Shaun planned "to go into the woods like Thoreau and all that," after graduation. When Shaun revealed his true plans, "she was kind of relieved I'd be working with people instead of living alone...
...Thoreau observed that man's urge to understand the natural world is often thwarted by his passion "that all things be mysterious and unexplorable." Former Audubon Magazine Editor John K. Terres offers a refreshing alternative: a 7½-lb., kaleidoscopic catalogue of the appearance, habitats, songs, ranges and nests of 847 avian species found in North America. Terres finds no need to overstate the complex marvels of the feathered world outside the window...
Searching for sources, environmentalists customarily quote writers like Henry David Thoreau or John Muir. But these days the heads of organizations like the Audubon and Wilderness societies are resorting more and more to Dr. Johnson...