Walking

I Wish To Speak A Word For Nature, For Absolute Freedom And Wildness, As Contrasted With A Freedom And Culture Merely Civilmdash;to Regard Man As An Inhabitant, Or A Part And Parcel Of Nature, Rather Than A Member Of Society. I Wish To Make An Extreme Statement, If So I May Make An Emphatic One, For There Are Enough Champions Of Civilization: The Minister And The School Committee And Every One Of You Will Take Care Of That. Henry David Thoreau, Noted Transcendentalist, Wrote Walking As A Message Of The Battle Between The Importance Of Nature And The Pull Of The Demands Of Society, While At The Same Time Writing His Other Environmental Work, Walden.