Henry David Thoreau

30 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• Humans should be seen as part of Nature rather than as members of society (opens korrents.com)

  “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…”

  around 1862

• True walking is the day's adventure, not exercise taken like medicine (opens korrents.com)

  “But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours—as the swinging of dumb-bells or chairs; but is itself the enterprise and adventure…”

  around 1862

• Most so-called improvements, like building and felling forests, deform the landscape (opens korrents.com)

  “Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”

  around 1862