Title Walking

Author Henry David Thoreau

Kind of Book Essay

How strongly I recommend it 7/10 

My Impressions  Thoreau muses about walking, nature, mythology, and beginner's mind. This essay will make you want to go out for a walk unlike the ones you're probably used to taking.

Practical Takeaways

• go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, —prepared to send back out embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms

• Spend at least four hours a day sauntering through the woods

• Don't exercise indoors in a gym when you can be exercising outside in nature

• "…walk like a camel, which is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking." pg.77

• Be present and engaged in your senses while walking

• Don't give names to children when they are born. Only after they earn one though certain characteristics.

• Maintain a beginners mind Ie. Empty your cup

• Climb a tree

Big Ideas

Surprising Facts

• Hindus thought that the Earth rested on an Elephant, and the Elephant on a tortoise, and the tortoise on a serpent

• the Greeks called the world Koouoc meaning Beauty or Order