America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide impact, Henry David Thoreau's remarkable essays reflect his speculative and p...
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Nov 19, 2010
David
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Of this collection I read Civil Disobedience, Walking, and a few of his poems. Of these, and of what I've read of Thoreau, I enjoyed Walking the most.
Thoreau speaks about his thoughts and experiences he has while walking in the country and in the woods. He sees not only the physical, but the spiritual world better when he has been out among that which is natural.
Here are some excerpts from Walking:
"How near to good is what is wild!"
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Thoreau speaks about his thoughts and experiences he has while walking in the country and in the woods. He sees not only the physical, but the spiritual world better when he has been out among that which is natural.
Here are some excerpts from Walking:
"How near to good is what is wild!"
" More...
Apr 12, 2008
Steve
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life!
-Henry David Thoreau (A Natural History of Massachusetts)
Standing quite alone, far in the forest, while the wind is shaking down snow from the trees, and leaving the only human tracks behind us, we find our reflections of a richer variety than the life of cities.
-Henry David Thoreau (A Winter Walk)
Shall we out-wear the year
In our pavilions on its dusty pl More...
-Henry David Thoreau (A Natural History of Massachusetts)
Standing quite alone, far in the forest, while the wind is shaking down snow from the trees, and leaving the only human tracks behind us, we find our reflections of a richer variety than the life of cities.
-Henry David Thoreau (A Winter Walk)
Shall we out-wear the year
In our pavilions on its dusty pl More...
Jun 12, 2009
Melissa
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Walking is the most therapeutic and eerily familiar essays I have ever read. It hovers over me every afternoon while I walk my dogs for as long as I am able.
I can't say I relate to and love every piece in this book, partly because some have not stuck with me and partly because I have not read the book all the way through.
I can't say I relate to and love every piece in this book, partly because some have not stuck with me and partly because I have not read the book all the way through.
Nov 15, 2011
S.D.
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Many of Thoreau’s essays were lectures first, and retain an exacerbating amount of rhetorical flourish that probably sounded better than it reads. This oratorical style often undermines the content of the political essays. After reading “Civil Disobedience,” I felt as if I’d attended a populist gathering, of the “tea party” sort currently infesting the U.S.; a shame, since Thoreau’s often firebrand rhetoric turns his subject against the issue it should address: the right of the people to prote
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Mar 28, 2008
the poems are not so good!
the essay on winter is marvelous crazy. i like to imagine he just walks up to me one day on the street and starts talking to me about ice.
the essay on winter is marvelous crazy. i like to imagine he just walks up to me one day on the street and starts talking to me about ice.
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