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There are instances: [henry david] thoreau read [john] wordsworth, [john] muir read thoreau, teddy roosevelt read muir, and you got national parks. it took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.
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There Are Instances: [henry David] Thoreau Read

Robert Hass
There are instances: [henry david] thoreau read [john] wordsworth, [john] muir read thoreau, teddy roosevelt read muir, and you got national parks. it took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.
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