Walking, paperback/henry david thoreau

Description For I believe that climate does thus react on man -- as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires.

Henry David Thoreaus Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, shortly after the authors death.

The impassioned essay, which praises the merits of time spent in nature, has become one of the most influential works of the modern environmentalist movement.

Thoreaus view of walking in nature as a self-reflective activity invites readers to embark on their own ramble in order to gain a wild and dusky self-knowledge unattainable elsewhere.

Americans felt the pressures of a changing world even in the relatively slow-paced 1800s, and Thoreau proposed balancing social stress with unhurried wanderings in fields and woods.

His writings, from Civil Disobedience to Walden , remain popular because of their enduring relevance, and Walking bears a special resonance for modern readers who may have become disconnected from the natural world.

About the Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was an essayist, poet, and philosopher as well as one of Americas foremost nature writers.

He lived most of his life in Concord, Massachusetts, and was a close friend and prot g of Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Walden, a meditation on life in the woods, and Civil Disobedience, a polemic advocating dissent from unjust government, are his best-known works.