Waldens Shore by Robert M. Thorson. Title Waldens Shore. At Walden's climax, Thoreau asks us to imagine a "living earth" upon which all animal and plant life is parasitic. Thorson concludes that the inevitable path of Thoreau's thought was descendental, not transcendental, as he worked his way downward through the complexity of life to its inorganic origin, the living rock.
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