Walden Pond is no Hotel California. Still, rockin' friend of the earth Don Henley has been doing some serious stumping to keep 19th-century philosopher/author Henry David Thoreau's hangout, Walden Woods in Massachusetts, from the clutches of developers. (So far, 23,000 copies of a Henley-inspired collection of essays, Heaven Is Under Our Feet, have been sold, with royalties going to the Walden Woods Project.) Are Henry and Henley natural allies? Judge for yourself:
Henley: ''Life in the fast lane, sure to make you lose your mind.''
(''Life in the Fast Lane'')
Thoreau: ''The universe constantly and obediently answers
to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is
laid for us.'' (Walden)
Henley: ''They knew all the right people, they took all the right
pills, they threw outrageous parties, they paid heavily bills.'' (''Life in the Fast Lane'')
Thoreau: ''Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your
affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Our life
is frittered away by detail.'' (Walden)
Henley: ''They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't
kill the beast.'' (''Hotel California'')
Thoreau: ''We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in
proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,
and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled.'' (Walden)
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