E Excursions Henry David Thoreau
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  1. Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part I

    24:10

  2. Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part II

    22:37

  3. Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson - Part III

    16:01

  4. Natural History of Massachusetts - Part I

    25:27

  5. Natural History of Massachusetts - Part II

    24:43

  6. Natural History of Massachusetts - Part III

    18:49

  7. A Walk to Wachusett - Part I

    22:40

  8. A Walk to Wachusett - Part II

    23:27

  9. The Landlord

    22:30

  10. A Winter Walk - Part I

    28:22

  11. A Winter Walk - Part II

    23:03

  12. The Succession of Forest Trees - Part I

    29:29

  13. The Succession of Forest Trees - Part II

    20:24

  14. Walking - Part I

    27:12

  15. Walking - Part II

    24:47

  16. Walking - Part III

    28:35

  17. Walking - Part IV

    21:41

  18. Autumnal Tints - Part I

    23:29

  19. Autumnal Tints - Part II

    22:40

  20. Autumnal Tints - Part III

    22:44

  21. Autumnal Tints - Part IV

    26:53

  22. Wild Apples - Part I

    25:48

  23. Wild Apples - Part II

    25:21

  24. Wild Apples - Part III

    24:25

  25. Night and Moonlight

    23:34

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Walking becomes a way of thinking about freedom in Henry David Thoreau's essays on nature and outdoor life. Published in 1863, this collection includes writing on the Massachusetts landscape and the growth of forests. In the essay on walking, Thoreau presents the walker as part of the natural world and treats wandering as an art that calls for leisure and independence. His playful account of the word's origins gives an ordinary activity a larger purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's opening biographical sketch places these ideas beside Thoreau's daily habits in Concord. It describes his practical work as a surveyor and his preference for keeping his needs small enough to preserve time for study. The connection between those choices and the essays gives readers a way to consider how work, attention and personal freedom shape a life spent close to nature.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.

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