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"For I believe that climate does thus react on man - as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires. Henry David Thoreau's Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, shortly after the author's death. The…
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1 author picked Walking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love Walking for its poetry and for the slowness that allows it to sink so deeply into the present.
Thoreau treats walking not as a means of getting somewhere, but almost as an end in itself, and that changes the rhythm of everything around it. That idea stays with me: walking as pure present tense, one step after another. I love the way the book makes room for observation, thought, landscape, and silence without rushing toward a conclusion.
Thoreau has stayed close to me for years; I even chose his line, “As if you could kill time without injuring…
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