Walking
Description
“In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay “Walking.”Celebrates the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth in 1817.This summation of his life’s work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. “Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present,” he wrote. He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature...
ISBN(s)
0884486133, 9780884486138
