...Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads. London: Duckworth, 1892. S. XXVII. 224 „[...] to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature". Thoreau, Writings. Vol. 5. S. 205. 22 5 Thoreau, Walden. S. 125. 226 „I expand and live in the warm...

...the world."' Thoreau 's "Walking" reallv has three subjects: walking, wildness, and the OJ ' O' West. "I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness," he begins, but somewhere along the way his words run away with him, and he loses sight of his original...

...Thoreau's walking is a kind of externalization, a "walking out" of his ideals. His purpose is to attain "absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil." 35 In the opposition between nature and society, Thoreau uses the motif of walking to side with nature...

...essay on walking had lurched toward greatness, but even Henry David Thoreau could not resist preaching. "I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness," he famously begins his 1851 essay "Walking," for like all the other essayists he connects walking in...

...Thoreau's walking is a kind of externalization, a "walking out" of his ideals. His purpose is to attain "absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil."35 In the opposition between nature and society, Thoreau uses the motif of walking to side with...

...character, and culture." The opening sentence of the address highlighted the new ecological thinking of Thoreau: "I wish to speak a word for nature, for absolute...parcel of nature, rather than a member of society" (1968b:10). In this new intellectual climate, wilderness, the land beyond the frontier, became more...

...them artificial." Emerson's friend Thoreau (19n6: 51i disliked cities and their culture even more: "I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society". Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe all depicted the city as a sewer of evil and wickedness. In a story set...

...lecture "Walking," published in revised form in the Atlantic soon after his death. In this he proposes "to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom...contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil." He remarks that his instinct is to walk west or southwest. the World. Every tree sends its fibres forth...

...drawn to this magical place but feel compelled nonetheless. l had prepared myself to speak a word now for Nature — for absolute Freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture simply civil — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature — rather than a member...

...consistently refuses to be pigeonholed. The attempts of so many readers to do so spring from his propensity Thoreau's seeming paradoxes and contradictions are a result not of any conscious attempt at iconoclasm...