WALKING

WALKING

We must always go forward, chance, even the smallest walk, driven by the spirit of perpetual adventure, determined never to turn back.

The Walking based on two lectures given by Thoro towards the end of his life (in 1862). Ssummarizes his ideas about nature and man as they were formed during his permanent stay in the forests. In nature he sees not only the beauty that surrounds him, but also all the guarantees for the true freedom and development of the individual. After all "all great things are wild and free". And he suggests walking, that is, the best way to restore one's contact with nature and to find again his primitive and creative self, which has been corrupted and degraded by the "achievements" of civilization.

Throughout his life he supported its abolition slavery, lecturing on it. Characterized as anarchist, although the Civil disobedience  calls more for the improvement and not for the abolition of the state.

WALKING

Prominent member of the Transcendentalist movement in the United States in the mid-19th century. Essayist, thinker, poet and fierce opponent of slavery o Henry David Thoreau (the Thoro). He proclaimed in his writings, public speeches and his whole attitude to life the absolute need of the individual to live freely. Unbound and in harmony with its natural environment. Both his combative essays (Civil disobedience, Life without principles) as well as his hymns to nature and its power (Walden or Life in the Woods, Walking). they inspired a multitude of writers, intellectuals, ecological and political theories and resistance movements from the 19th century to the present day.

Western thought and Eastern philosophy, phlegmatic humorous writing and fundamental essays, timeless poetry and immortal little prose. Texts that marked their time and are still read everywhere: this is the select series of Oxy editions.

Dimitris Doulgeridis, ed. Ta Nea

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