Letter From Thoreau to Darwin

Dear Charles Darwin,
Hello, I have recently read your theory on natural
selection and the Origin of Species. Although each of us
approach life differently, for example your ambition being on
a different level than mine and your formal learning more
than I feel is needed, I admire how much you have learned
from nature.
I say that if one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours. Although you weren't a prominent scientist, you took
on the challenge of learning from nature,…