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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one of America's most influential thinkers, a naturalist who travelled and lived simply in New England, closely observing the natural world with the eye of a poet and a natural scientist. His nature writings include Walden (perhaps his best-known book), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and his essay "Walking". Cape Cod was first published posthumously in Boston in 1865. Martin Luther King Jr described Thoreau's essay On Civil Disobedience as his first contact with nonviolent resistence.

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In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. This new 2017 edition of Thoreau's celebrated essay includes an by historian Elbert Hubbard.