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Birds as Moral Measure -Thoreau and Audubon as Men of Their Time: Choosing Sins of Hate or Love and Doing Better

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.

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