Walking, by Henry David Thoreau - Akasha Classics,
AkashaPublishing.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 society. I wish to
make an extreme statement, if so I may make an 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. I
have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who
understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had a
genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully
derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the
Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte
Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes
a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to
the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere
idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in
the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the
word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in
the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally
at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful
sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the
greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is
no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while
sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the
first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every
walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us,
to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the
Infidels.
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