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Most definitely! Quoting from the essay linked below: "The ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao-Tzu, once said: ‘He who knows he has enough is rich’ (Vanenbroeck, 1991: 116). Thoreau was telling his contemporaries that they had enough, but that they did not know it, and so were poor. Always wanting more luxuries and comforts, and never content with less, Thoreau felt that people did not understand the meaning of ‘Economy’, did not understand that ‘the cost of a thing is the amount of … life which is required to be exchanged for it’ (286). ‘Most [people],’ he insisted, ‘even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance or mistake, are so occupied with factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them’ (261). By a ‘seeming fate’, there was ‘no time to be anything but a machine’ (261)."

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Here is my chapter on Henry Thoreau from Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future. HENRY THOREAU Few individuals in history evoke imag...