Henry David Thoreau
The nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Henry David
Thoreau helped awaken Americans to the beauty and spirituality of the natural
world. His two-year, two-month experiment in simple living at Walden Pond
and his single night in a Concord jail continue to loom large on the intellectual
landscape of our nation. In this class we will be taking a look at one
of Thoreau's lesser-known essays, "Walking," in which he declares unabashedly
"in wildness is the preservation of the world."
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