Walking - by Henry David Thoreau (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This 1862 essay, a meditation on the joy of walking and its necessity as a remedy for stress, has become one of the most influential works of the modern environmentalist movement.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>For I believe that climate does thus react on man -- as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires.<br>Henry David Thoreau's <i>Walking</i> began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> in 1862, shortly after the author's 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. Thoreau's 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.<br>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 <i>Civil Disobedience</i> to <i>Walden</i>, remain popular because of their enduring relevance, and <i>Walking</i> bears a special resonance for modern readers who may have become disconnected from the natural world.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was an essayist, poet, and philosopher as well as one of America's foremost nature writers. He lived most of his life in Concord, Massachusetts, and was a close friend and protégé of Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. <i>Walden, </i>a meditation on life in the woods, and <i>Civil Disobedience, </i> a polemic advocating dissent from unjust government, are his best-known works.
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