This was a wonderful talk.
especially with the references to Henry David Thoreau.
You will may have to download the player to get this to work.
Elder Perry’s Talk is in the Saturday morning session.
You can see the whole conference here LDS General Conference – English Oct 2008
L Tom Perry is one of my favorite apostles. He has this comforting, optomisitc way of speaking that reminds me of Pres Monson and Pres Hinckley.