Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century philosopher who romanticized the virtues of walking in nature—though in reality, he rarely ventured too far from his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. Despite the values he extolled, Thoreau found the Adirondack Trail horribly savage, wild, and distressing when he attempted to hike part of it.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes in A Walk in the Woods
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The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes in A Walk in the Woods
The A Walk in the Woods quotes below are all either spoken by Henry David Thoreau or refer to Henry David Thoreau . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core.
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