![]() ![]() Johnson from ‘Henry Hikes to Fitchburg,’ a children’s book about Thoreau’s philosophy. In his 1861 treatise Walking ( free ebook | public library), penned seven years after Walden, he sets out to remind us of how that primal act of mobility connects us with our essential wildness, that spring of spiritual vitality methodically dried up by our sedentary civilization. ![]() Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862) was a man of extraordinary wisdom on everything from optimism to the true meaning of “success” to the creative benefits of keeping a diary to the greatest gift of growing old. A century and a half earlier, another remarkable mind made a beautiful and timeless case for that basic, infinitely rewarding, yet presently endangered human activity. That is the glory of life,” Maira Kalman exhorted in her glorious visual memoir. ![]()
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