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This is CBS Eye on the World.

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 talents 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 know 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 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 past 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 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 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

brought to America didn't allow for the possibility

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