Walking

Henry David Thoreau's Walking, originally delivered as a lecture in 1851 and posthumously published in 1862, stands as one of the most eloquent philosophical treatises on the relationship between the individual, nature, and society in American literature. Though brief in length, the essay is expansive in vision, combining transcendentalist philosophy, environmental advocacy, and social critique in a richly meditative form. In Walking, Thoreau refines many of the central tenets of his worldv...