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If you care about climate change, racial justice or equality, thank a transcendentalist


If you care about climate change, racial justice or equality, thank a transcendentalist
The 19th century movement has much to say to us today.
A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau s cabin in Walden Pond, where he wrote his famous essay Walden.(Kirkikis / Getty Images)
By John A. Buehrens
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Often we first meet them in literature classes: chiefly through Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Yet they were more than writers, or individualists, praising “Self-Reliance,” or living at Walden Pond. Historically, transcendentalism was a movement of creative thinkers and activists, working for both spiritual and social transformation. They have much to say to us yet today. ....

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