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Walking
Henry David Thoreau
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This essay appears, on the surface, to be simply expounding the qualities of Nature and man’s place therein. Through this medium he not only touches those subjects, but with the implications of such a respect for nature, or lack thereof.
This essay appears, on the surface, to be simply expounding the qualities of Nature and man’s place therein. Through this medium he not only touches those subjects, but with the implications of such a respect for nature, or lack thereof.
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I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the woodside. There are square miles in my vicinity which have no inhabitant. From many a hill I can see civilization and the abodes of man afar. The farmers and their works are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture even politics, the most alarming of them all—I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it. I sometimes direct the traveler thither. If you would go. . . Read More
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3,5*
Um livro realmente bom é algo natural, inesperado, inexplicavelmente notável e belo, como uma flor silvestre encontrada na pradaria do Oeste ou na selva do Leste. O génio é uma luz que torna a escuridão visível, como a luz de um relâmpago, e que despedaça talvez o próprio templo do conhecimento
Could jogging count, perchance? I promise to keep my head facing west by south-west as I run in my daily circles...more
Özetle: Bitirince yürümek isteyeceksiniz.
Herhangi bir yere, varış noktası olmadan yürümek. Sakinleştirici etkisi yaratan bir kitap, okudukça "Neden kafamdaki gerekli gereksiz her şeyi bir kenara bırakıp sadece yürümüyorum?" dedim. Yazarın günlerce yürüdüğünü yazdığı kısım doğruysa tebrik ediyorum.
Where do you come from? where do you go? Where do you come from, Henry Thoreau?
I was terribly disappointed in this book, primarily because it just didn't flow or hold together. I have known Thoreau primarily from quotations, and indeed, the lyrical or descriptive beauty of random excerpts from this book were its only redeeming elements.
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"For every walk is a sort of cr