"H. D. Thoreau mostr ?al mundo la importancia fundamental de la naturaleza en su relacin? con el ser humano cuando decidi ?irse a vivir en mitad del bosque y publicar su experiencia. Despuš de aquella obra cumbre, Walden, el autor volcaba en este librito sus reflexiones en torno al arte de caminar. Salir y explorar los lugares ms? remotos, pisar caminos y bosques no solo libera nuestra mente, sino que tambi? nos asoma a una vida ms? sencilla y aut?tica, ms? cercana al primigenio estado salvaje."--From back cover.… (más)
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.
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man—a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him. Darwin the naturalist says, "A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian was like a plant bleached by the gardener's art, compared with a fine, dark green one, growing vigorously in the open fields."
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.
So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.
"H. D. Thoreau mostr ?al mundo la importancia fundamental de la naturaleza en su relacin? con el ser humano cuando decidi ?irse a vivir en mitad del bosque y publicar su experiencia. Despuš de aquella obra cumbre, Walden, el autor volcaba en este librito sus reflexiones en torno al arte de caminar. Salir y explorar los lugares ms? remotos, pisar caminos y bosques no solo libera nuestra mente, sino que tambi? nos asoma a una vida ms? sencilla y aut?tica, ms? cercana al primigenio estado salvaje."--From back cover.
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