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 à la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. 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. The work on this site (unless otherwise credited to another source) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.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. This site has served as both a home-base for walking workshops, and a research organization tool while I have been writing a book:Īvailable October 2023 – sign up to be notified Post navigation ← Dorothy and William Wordsworth Menhirs → This entry was posted in History of Walking, Writing About Walking on Septemby admin. Thoreau considered it to be one of his best works, and repeatedly rewrote it during the 1850s.” ( credit) Within it, Thoreau carefully explores the important relationship between nature and kind. “ “Walking” is an essay by Henry David Thoreau based on a lecture originally delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. The month after his death from tuberculosis, in May 1862, the magazine published “Walking,” one of his most famous essays, which extolled the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and lamented the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness.” ( credit)
“Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist, philosopher, and author of such classics as Walden (a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings) and “Civil Disobedience,” contributed a number of writings to The Atlantic in its early years.
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