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This book and a frog inspired the conversion of J. W. Krutch, who wrote its “Cactus” version in Arizona. References in this book led Don Henley to preserve a hill farmed by the Black “former inhabitant” Brister Freeman. A fictional project that extrapolates this book’s “experiment” to multiple people produced imitators like Los Horcones (“or-KO-nace”), Mexico, and Twin Oaks, Virginia, and inspired a modular apartment (10[1])complex by Ricardo Bofill (10[1])(“boo-FEEL”). Riffing (10[1])on this book’s (10[1]-5[1])speculative “Realometer,” Richard Primack matched climate data with its author’s records of first flowering dates (10[1])for an unfinished phenology tome. (-5[1])A utopian novel named for this book, in which (10[1])Six Planners organize (10[1])T. E. Frazier’s (10[1])engineered (10[1])community, (10[2]-5[1])was written by B. F. Skinner. For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this 1854 (10[1])book about the woods (10[1])around an (10[1])Ice Age (10[2])kettle pond by Henry (10[1])David Thoreau. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Walden [accept Walden Pond; accept Walden Two, Walden 7, Walden Woods Project, Walden Warming, or the “Cactus Walden”] (Krutch, who wrote the “Cactus WaldenThe Desert Year, embraced a pantheism that he first invoked in an essay from The Twelve Seasons about the spring peeper.)
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Jakob MyersIndianaVirginia6310
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesMcGill6710
Will OrrYale BTruman State6810
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BHarvard71-5
Mattias EhatammWaterlooCornell A7110
Henry CafaroChicago BJohns Hopkins8610
Albert ZhangColumbia BBerkeley A91-5
Justin WytmarIllinoisBrown10010
Charles HangWUSTL ARutgers10310
Andrew KelleyKentuckyNorth Carolina A10610
Andrew SalijNorthwesternPenn10710
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AColumbia A10810
Drew WetterlindIowa StateBerkeley B108-5
Andrew MinagarYale AArizona State10810
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltMaryland11610
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaCornell B11710
Todd MaslykMichiganToronto B12010
Jisoo YooTexasGeorgia Tech12410
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BIowa State12610
Tiffany ZhouFloridaToronto A12810
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley AColumbia B12810
William HoustonChicago DNorth Carolina B13210
Joy AnHarvardMinnesota B13510