I wish to make an extreme statement………………..

by cristina on July 16, 2014

Quoted from one of Henry David Thoreau’s works – ‘Walking’:

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 a 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.

 

My thoughts to follow………………..

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