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Henry David Thoreau was man of simplicity, and if he were to experience life in Cary, he would not only be surprised, but disappointed in humanity itself. Thoreau believed in the necessities of life, nothing more, and the people of Cary live lives exactly the opposite. Cary residents live lives of material possessions, business, and over-complexity. These traits of society are precisely opposite of Thoreau’s ideals and beliefs. Not only would Thoreau be disappointed, but his eyes would be filled with disgust, every which way he looked in the Town of Cary and it’s people. Certainly material possessions are a necessity to a point, but people in Cary drag it out to the extreme, and worship their possessions to a point where they become idols. Surely if Thoreau spent as little as fifteen minutes in Cary, the ideals he so richly abode by would be crushed in an instant. He believes in living the basics of life, for as Thoreau put it, “let us spend one day as deliberately as nature. ( )” We the people of Cary don’t just live as shut off from nature as we possibly can, we “pave nature”, and transform it into things that we don’t...

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