In the July issue of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg's editor's note, is
entitled "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" from Henry David
Thoreau's essay, "Walking," first published in The Atlantic in 1862.
Lincoln residents, particularly those who have been working hard to oppose
the expansion of the Hanscom base for use by owners of private jets, will
be interested in the final paragraph of Goldberg's essay which reads:
"Me, I went to Walden Pond. I visit occasionally, walking
the path that starts behind Ralph Waldo Emerson's house and ends up near the
pond's big parking lot and little beach. Thoreau would be surprised by
Walden Pond today: more visitors, much more noise. The noise could get
worse soon. A proposed plan to radically expand a nearby airport for
private jets has conservations and preservationists worried that an
appreciation of the sanctity and history of Concord is not unanimously
shared. One doesn't have to live like Thoreau to understand that wealth
comes in many forms - in the wildness of the world, for instance - and that
returning the planet to some sort of equilibrium is a universal interest."
Hear, hear! Thank you to The Atlantic for its more-than-a
century- long focus on the relationship between people and the natural world
we inhabit, a focus which grows in intensity in this era of climate change.
And thank you, as well, to the residents of Lincoln and neighboring
communities who have been vigorous opponents to the expansion of Hanscom
Airforce Base.
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