{"product_id":"walking-9781945644221","title":"Walking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry David Thoreau, noted transcendentalist, wrote \u003cem\u003eWalking\u003c\/em\u003e as a message of the battle between the importance of nature and the pull of the demands of society, while at the same time writing his other environmental work, \u003cem\u003eWalden.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst delivered by Thoreau in 1851, \u003cem\u003eWalking, \u003c\/em\u003eor also known as \u003cem\u003eThe Wild, \u003c\/em\u003e this essay was not only popular with the public, but also considered by Thoreau himself as, \"... a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chump Change","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50698012426514,"sku":"9781945644221","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5406a745-97b0-4996-bdbe-54997a7de50b.jpg?v=1756201377","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-9781945644221","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}