![]() ![]() 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 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 always found nature walking boring until I read Thoreau’s piece. This book and that new habit has been life-changing for me. In an attempt to unplug from the noise of tech, I decided to take one day a week, turn off all my gadgets and try walking. I never really “got” the idea of walking until I read the Walking essay. ![]() If you have a Kindle App, you can download it here for free here. Henry David Thoreau’s first published essay, Walking, is well worth reading. A fir tree on my second walk at the Quabban Reservoir in Massachusetts ![]()
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