Daily Log

Thursday, February 3

We looked at walden.org, the website of the Walden Woods Project, which has preserved Thoreau's cabin site at Walden Pond, and offers abundant Thoreau-connected resources both online and onsite. We read part of what the site has to say about Thoreau's heavy influence on the modern environmentalist movement.

Mr. P then read to the class the first chapter, enitled "The First Day," from Desert Solitude by Edward Abbet, a more recent writer who has also influenced modern environmentalism, especially the movement's more radical wing. We briefly discussed the chapter, paradoxes and call for a "hard and brutal mysticism."