Walking

Could jogging count, perchance? I promise to keep my head facing west by south-west as I run in my daily circles.........more

Thoreau finds nature a reflection of how we think. Leaving nature for civilisation is the first mistake we make. I love everything he writes, and of course, this is more about nature than it is about walking, and more of who we are in nature.......more

I was terribly disappointed in this book, primarily because it just didn't flow or hold together. I have known Thoreau primarily from quotations, and indeed, the lyrical or descriptive beauty of random excerpts from this book were its only redeeming elements. Examples: "For every walk is a sort of cr......more

Where do you come from? where do you go? Where do you come from, Henry Thoreau?......more

This essay by Henry David Thoreau is about the author's joy in living in nature and in the present. Walking is a short read and nicely encapsulates many of Thoreau's themes from Walden Pond and his other works. Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cut......more