This is an excellent @longreads article (or book excerpt rather) about #Thoreau and #Darwin (since today is Darwin's birth anniversary). It hits on so many of the major reasons why I love, and continue to be inspired by, Thoreau.
"[Thoreau] hovered between design and chance, between idealism and materialism. Which is why his argument in “The Succession of Forest Trees” is so remarkable—for Thoreau locates mystery and wonder within materialism."
