THE ATHENAEUMWalkingHenry David Thoreau
Natural History
Walking
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThoreau’s lecture on walking, which he gave many times, printed in The Atlantic Monthly in June 1862, a month after his death. It is the essay in which he wrote that “in Wildness is the preservation of the World”, and meant it. He says he cannot keep his health and spirits without four hours a day, at least, sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields.
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- Reading time
- About 50 minutes
- Where to find it
- Walden Pond
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1022. In the public domain in the United States.