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...message of Thoreau has not been forgotten; it survives in the struggle to preserve areas of great natural beauty from the inroads of industry and land developers. The latest chapter in this struggle is the attempt of the citizens of Indiana to save the last remnant of the Indiana Dunes. The Dunes, a four and a half mile stretch of waterfront bordering on Lake Michigan, contains some of the world's most beautiful beaches and offers the best available recreational space for the seven million people who live in the industrial and metropolitan complex centered in Chicago. Their destruction would...
...those who disdain a mechanistic appearance in house (the Dymaxion house has often been called a "machine for living"), Fuller answers, "There was a moment when industrialism began to advance when men were apprehensive. Such men as Emerson and Thoreau were afraid that everything would become stereotyped. In fact, what has happened in the industrial revolution has been quite the contrary. Different models develop all the time: passenger planes, bombers, small planes, large planes. The species is multiplying fabulously. There's no such thing as a stereotype...
Unjust Laws Exist--Thoreau...
Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
...patience with the U.S.-"The only America I like is the America of Whitman, Thoreau and Emerson, and that never really existed"-scatological Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, 69, slipped into London making noises about chucking it all. "If I had my time over again," he confided, "I wouldn't be a writer or an artist or anything like that. I'd be a shoemaker, a fisherman or something humble. Nowadays our work has no relation to our lives. It's stulti fying. All work is degrading, demoralizing and crushing to the individual...