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Walking (Paperback)

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In celebration of the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth, this slim volume is more relevant than ever.  “Walking” is Thoreau’s essay about the importance of mindfulness within nature, and in this special edition, is complemented by beautiful black and white nature photographs. You’ll feel more connected after reading – a perfect give for the nature lover in your life.  
 

— Liz

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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781502310859
ISBN-10: 1502310856
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: September 9th, 2014
Pages: 64
Language: English