This particular Thoreau essay runs about 20 pages a total of 12,188 words. I still remember the opening phrase from the essay, “I wish to speak a word for Nature…”.Ī student had grumbled, “There’s a lot more than one word here…” “In May 1862, the magazine published ‘Walking,’ one of his most famous essays, which extolled the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and lamented the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness.” My Walk in the Woods Livebinder allowed me to place the link Thoreau’s essay “On Walking” explained in its republication in The Atlantic magazine The materials on Livebinders can be accessed on all digital platforms, so that students could access it on their own devices. With our online binders you can combine all of your cloud documents, website links and upload your desktop documents – to then easily access, share, and update your binders from anywhere.” “We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the piles of papers on your desk – organize them into nice presentable containers – like 3-ring binders on your shelf. A Livebinder is a digital file cabinet where anyone can upload or link materials for others to use. In 2013, I created a Livebinderfor my seniors who were reading the Bill Bryson book A Walk in the Woods. Therefore, I was surprised to discover that although I have taught his essays and discussed his literary impact on American Literature, I have not yet written on this blog about Henry David Thoreau. “That’s a rather depressing sentiment,” my Aunt Rita had commented. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Soon after, my choice of for a quote under my yearbook photo (a serious decision made after much deliberation) was his:

I remember my first encounters with Thoreau were traditional, his essays read in my high school English class. Today marks the 200th birthday of American writer (poet, essayist, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist) Henry David Thoreau.

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