 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.  The Oxford Book of American Essays - Pàgina 128editat per - 1914 - 508 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 pàgines
...though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light. WALKING[1862.] I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...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 wish to make... | |
 | 1890 - 814 pàgines
...BOSTON; u EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. 2 CAMPING-OUT BOOKS, AND OTHER VOLUMES FOR OUT-OF-DOORS. 1 wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...parcel of Nature rather than a member of society. . . . All good things are wild and free. — THOREAU. WOODS AND LAKES OF MAINE. A Trip from Moosehead... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pàgines
...for his courtesy and kindness. WHD i I ; ' \ • I ! ESSAYS AND LETTERS. ' ESS A YS. WALKING. [1862.] I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilisation : the minister and the school committee, and every one of you will take care of that.... | |
 | 1891 - 642 pàgines
...but also the tonic affect of their savagery upon him. "I wish to speak a word for nature," he said, "for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted...culture merely civil, to regard man as an inhabitant, a part and parcel of nature rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement;... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1899 - 344 pàgines
...but for the tonic effect of their savagery upon him. " I wish to speak a word for nature," he said, " for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with...culture merely civil, to regard man as an inhabitant, a part and parcel of nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement... | |
 | Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pàgines
...his identification of himself with the universe. In his essay on " Walking " he announces his desire to " speak a word for nature, for absolute freedom...inhabitant or a part and parcel of nature, rather than as a member of society." His demand is for literature which gives expression to nature, and he finds... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1902 - 408 pàgines
...was his motto ; self-expansion, not " doing good for others," his ideal. As regards nature, man is "an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society." When the question of opposition to slavery arose, his preaching was that his countrymen were men first,... | |
 | 1905 - 104 pàgines
...THOREAU. I believe in the forest, in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows." — THOREAU. [WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with i freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature,... | |
 | 1910 - 520 pàgines
...suggestions of nature, it is a characteristic expression of its authors spirit. 406 WALKING [1862] I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...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.... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 186 pàgines
...loyalty in no unmistakable terms: "I wish to speak a word for Nature," he began his essay on "Walking," "for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted...parcel of Nature, rather than a member of Society." Upon these terms man as we commonly know him — through our46 selves — can look for little hospitality.... | |
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