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When Henry David Thoreau reflected on the Merrimack River passage between Manchester and Goffstown, Massachusetts, from his 1839 canoe trip with his brother, his mind wandered to meditations on friendship:
My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. He is my real brother. I see his nature groping yonder so like mine. We do not live far apart….Is it of no significance that we have so long partaken of the same loaf, drank at the same fountain, breathed the same air summer and winter, felt the same heat and cold; that the same fruits have been pleased to refresh us both, and we have never had a thought of different fibre the one from the other!
… My Friend shall forever be my Friend, and reflect a ray of God to me, and time shall foster and adorn and consecrate our Friendship, no less than the ruins of temples. As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.1
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Notes
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 284–85.
Also quoted in Raymond Mungo, Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life ( New York: Dutton, 1970 ), 52–53.
Robert D. Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 ), 101–03.
Stephen Diamond, What the Trees Said: Life on a New Age Farm ( New York: Delacorte, 1971 ), 176.
See Linda J. Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature ( New York: Henry Holt, 1997 ).
Samuel Lovejoy, “Somebody’s Got to Do It,” in Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties, ed. Karen Manners Smith and Tim Koster (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 ), 418.
Barry Laffan, Communal Organization and Social Transition: A Case Study from the Counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies (New York: Peter Lang, 1997), 71–72,194.
John Wilton, “New York Marrakech and Montague,” New Babylon Times, no. 1 (Fall 1969): 5.
Harvey Wasserman, “Chief Thunderbunny Meets Mr. Big,” Green Mountain Post, no. 4 (Summer 1972): 14.
Tom Fels, Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond ( North Bennington, VT: RSI Press, 2008 ), 12.
Andrew Kopkind, “Up the Country: Five Communes in Vermont,” Working Papers for a New Society 1, no. 1 (Spring 1973): 45.
Raymond Mungo, Beyond the Revolution: My Life and Times Since Famous Long Ago (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1990 ), 39.
See Diamond, What the Trees Said, 176–77; and Raymond Mungo, Tropical Detective Story: The Flower Children Meet the Voodoo Chiefs ( New York: Dutton, 1972 ), 24.
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Slonecker, B. (2012). Karass: Family. In: A New Dawn for the New Left. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280831_6
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