Birds as Moral Measure -Thoreau and Audubon as Men of Their Time: Choosing Sins of Hate or Love and Doing Better
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by J. Drew Lanham
Excerpted from the Keynote Address given at the Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society, July 2022 in Concord, MA: J. Drew Lanham meditates on civil disobedience and birding, and imagines an exchange of letters between Thoreau and Audubon.