I'd like to present some snippets here of Thoreau's Walking: That inconvenience would scare the daylights out of most New Yorkers. I am not in any danger of slipping away too far from civilization, as I still obviously can upload posts to the world wide web. An Inconvenient Truth scared me to death.Īs part of my "method" tourism and to get some sense of Thoreau's universe, I have started taking aimless walks in the woods. I am also for Nature, enjoying diverse flora and fauna. That said, Thoreau is an advocate for Nature, what we now call the Environment. Thoreau can easily be put in the category "doesn't do well with others." I find him so dismissive of human society, the urban experience, politics, Europe, and so many other things I value that I am personally glad we're not bumping into one another on our long walks in the woods. The Thoreau Reader is a good online site with annotations to the works. The essay was published posthumously in 1862. Walking, originally a lecture Thoreau delivered in 1851 and presented on subsequent occasions, eventually congealed into a readable essay. Technically, Thoreau lived in another state, but NH is close enough. Dalloway with me, and I read that at night, but when I travel I try to engage in immersion tourism to better appreciate where I am. While in New Hampshire, I've been studying the essay Walking by Henry David Thoreau.
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