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Walking is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau and first published in 1861.

With this work, the author wants us to reflect on the importance of contact with nature for all people.

Thoreau argues that walking is an essential activity, beyond mere physical exercise, as an act of freedom and a form of meditation.

He advocates a deep and conscious relationship with the natural environment, suggesting that walking through wild landscapes allows individuals to reconnect with their essence and with universal truth. The essay is also a call to preserve and cherish natural spaces in the face of encroaching civilization and development.

"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 wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that."