![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() "For I believe that climate does thus react on man - as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires." Henry David Thoreau's Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, shortly after the author's death. ![]()
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