By Henry David Thoreau

Favorite quote: “Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”

From the publisher: In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay Walking.

This summation of his life’s work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. “Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present,” he wrote. He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature and awakening to the moment.

Walking is recognized by most scholars as Thoreau’s “other” masterpiece, Walden in a more concise form.

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Hardcover