Walking

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

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

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

Welcome to the ruminations of a man so utterly detached from society and so ridiculously romantic that he lacks all empathy, common sense or logic, and instead sits on his own throne of self-righteousness bemoaning the state of the world. I wanted to like this essay. I love nature, I love walking, an......more