Thoreau Farm

Ever think about what you are willing to sacrifice for “the good life?” Read excerpts – now available under the “Reading” page here at Thoreau Farm’s website – from David Gessner’s My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism and his NEW BOOK OUT THIS WEEK, The Tarball Chronicles.  In “Déjà vu: A Northern Interlude,” from The Tarball Chronicles,  Gessner ponders the larger question posited by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: How much are we willing to sacrifice for the “good life”? In this excerpt, he harkens back to Thoreau’s concept of sacrifice as “Economy” embodies it in Walden.  And from My Green Manifesto, an essay titled, “Henry’s River.” Go to the “Reading” tab above or click here:  Reading