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The essay that began as a lecture and became a manifesto — Thoreau's most passionate, most lyrical, and most radical argument for wildness as the preservation of the world, and for walking as the only honest way to know it. Thoreau delivered "Walking" as a lecture more than a dozen times before he prepared it for publication — it was among the last pieces he revised before his death in 1862, and it reads like a summation: everything he believed about nature, about civilization, about the direction America was taking and the direction he thought it should take instead, compressed into a single sustained essay of extraordinary rhetorical energy and lyrical beauty. The argument is simple and absolute: we are losing something we cannot afford to lose. The wildness that surrounds every settlement, that presses in at every edge of every town, that waits in every swamp and forest and uncultivated field — this is not empty space awaiting development but the source and the sustenance of everything in human civilization worth preserving. The walker who goes out every afternoon and surrenders to the landscape rather than imposing himself upon it is doing something more important than recreation. He is maintaining his connection to the reality that civilization, with its commerce and its newspapers and its improvement societies, is constantly working to sever. The essay contains some of Thoreau's finest prose — the famous declaration that in Wildness is the preservation of the World, the extraordinary passages on the West as a direction of imagination as much as geography, the meditation on the walker as a kind of knight who has taken vows to nature rather than to any human institution. It is one of the founding documents of American environmental thought and one of the most beautiful extended essays in the American literary tradition. This large print edition presents the complete, unabridged text of "Walking" in a format designed for comfortable extended reading.
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