Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a Henry David Thoreau lecture first given at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts of his earlier publications were extracted. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any of his other lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. "Walking" is a momentous essay that analyzes the relationship between man and nature, trying to find a balance between society and our raw animal nature. I would not like to cultivate every man or every part of a man, just as I would not cultivate every acre of land: part will be the tillage, but most will be prairie and forest. I want to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and the wild.In contrast to a purely civil liberty and culture, to consider man as an inhabitant, or an integral part of Nature, rather than a member of society. I derive more from my subsistence from the swamps that surround my hometown than from the gardens cultivated in the village. According to Thoreau, and like Emerson, being in nature is a spiritual experience, which shapes who we are.
