Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection) - Henry David Thoreau - Books - Createspace - 9781502930064 - October 21, 2014
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Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection)

Henry David Thoreau

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Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection)

Publisher Marketing: I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 21, 2014
ISBN13 9781502930064
Publishers Createspace
Genre Topical > Ecology
Pages 38
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 2 mm   ·   63 g

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