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If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.Walking is an essay by American writer, naturalist and philosopher David Thoreau (1817 - 1862). Thoreau's work has made a lasting contribution to modern environmental practice, and also influenced the non-violent resistance practiced by great civilians such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Walking, Nature, Philosophy, Fiction, Nonfiction, Classic Literature, Fiction, historical, Iran, fiction, United states, fiction, Transportation, environmental aspects, Poetry (poetic works by one author), American literature, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Natural history, north america, Aesthetic realism, Philosophy, americanShowing 4 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society."
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