7/2/2023 0 Comments Henry david thoreau on walking![]() Known predominantly for his seminal text, Walden or, Life in the Woods, his deathbed essay, Walking, is an exquisite distillation of the ideas that haunted Thoreau most of his adult life, namely the relationship between “civilized” existence and the natural world.Īnd so I have come to Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens, an autumnal paradise just on my very doorstep in Sussex, to steep in Thoreau’s prose, serendipitously coinciding with the official opening of its new sculpture park devoted to the work of South African sculptor, Anton Smit, and his aptly entitled exhibition, The Walk of Life. The American writer and transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau (12th July 1817–6th May 1862), friend and admirer of Emerson, also found inspiration from the great outdoors. Indeed, Ralph Waldo Emerson devoted an entire poem to the virtues of Mother Earth. So I often love to go off in search of Waldeinsamkeit, the German word meaning “forest solitude”, being sublimely alone in the woods and feeling at one with nature. THE OLDER I get, the simpler life becomes and all I yearn for is wholesome food, an early night and walking in the countryside. ![]() ![]() Sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields,Ībsolutely free from all worldly engagements.” ![]() ![]() “I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, ![]()
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