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Here's John Bachelor.

Continuing with Professor Dan Flores, his new book is Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people

in America, Henry David Thoreau, certainly a man celebrated for his literary skill and his observation talent, wrote very carefully, this is the 19th century.

When I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here, the Cougar,

Panther, Lynx, Wolverine, Wolf Bear, Most Deer, the Beaver, the Turkey,

I cannot but feel as if I have lived in a tamed and as it were emasculated country.

I take infinite pains to all the phenomena of the spring, thinking that I have here the

entire poem. And then to my chagrin I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves in grandest passages and mutilated in many in many places.

I read that a loud professor because it's extremely sad and very accurate. In your telling you fill in the parts that Henry David Thoreau moves quickly

passed as he celebrates a pond. And in considering North America, I asked

the big question because you've been dealing with this story for quite some time Dan

and I'm privileged to speak to you about it having read your book. Is this

understanding that the Ro had? Is he isolated? Is he a loner at the time? Or was

this always there in America and just overwhelmed by the politics and the prosperity of the age?

I think it was there, although it required particularly sensitive people

to grasp what was happening in America.

And one of the reasons it was not easy to grasp is because the ideas, the

ideologies that old worlders brought to the America didn't allow for the possibility of the extermination or

extinction of animals. Their notion coming out of the old world was that the earth created perfectly by a deity and every creature that had ever existed would always exist.

So there was no possibility until science began discovering the bones of creatures that clearly weren't

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