Walking (1914, The Riverside Press)
100 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1914 by The Riverside Press.
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.Walking is an essay by American writer, naturalist and philosopher David Thoreau (1817 - 1862). Thoreau's work has made a lasting contribution to modern environmental practice, and also influenced the non-violent resistance practiced by great civilians such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Few pages that deserve be re-read :))
Interesting perspective of the alienation we suffer since that time related to how we perceive nature
