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Henry David Thoreau

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Transcendentalist author and philosopher, criticized for not being truly self-sufficient at Walden Pond, compared to modern trad influencers.

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"Is just a truly perfect, absolutely on the nose parallel to the Trad, "return to ancestry", Liver King survivalist types who somehow manage to run successful Twitter, IG, YouTube, substack, accounts and post 10 forms of media about how trad they are per day."
"I seem to see somewhat more of my own kith and kin in the lichens on the rocks than in any books. It does seem as if mine were a peculiarly wild nature, which so yearns toward all wildness. I know of no redeeming qualities in me but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I have to fa"
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