Nature and Walking

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Thoreau, Henry David

• ISBN13: 9780807014196
• ISBN10: 0807014192
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Together in one volume, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature and Henry David Thoreau's Walking, writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

Author Biography

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. (Courtesy of Wikipedia) 

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a writer and philosopher as well as a naturalist. Walden is considered his masterpiece.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
John Elder
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction	3	(3)
Nature	6	(4)
Commodity	10	(3)
Beauty	13	(9)
Language	22	(10)
Discipline	32	(9)
Idealism	41	(12)
Spirit	53	(5)
Prospects	58	(11)
Walking	69
Henry David Thoreau