Song by Blue Garden
Lyrics by David Ballman
Music by Bob Andresen

This reminds me of Walden on Wheels

So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau:
‘Improved means to an unimproved end.’
This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man.

Martin Luther King Jr.  
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 
December 10th, 1964

Full video and text of the speech

Each new year is a surprise to us.
Thoreau– March 18, 1858