Thoreau admonished, "Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that it needs its own term, much like nostalgie de la boue {yearning for the mud} or wabi sabi {the beauty of the imperfect and impermanent}. When I asked on my blog if anyone knew a term to capture this idea, one reader coined the wonderful word "Waldenlust." This longing takes several forms: fantasies of the freedom that dispossession would bring; nostalgia for earlier, supposedly simpler times; and reverence for the primitive, which is assumed to be more authentic and closer to nature. I
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