1. Walking I

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 5:31 p.m.

"Walking" is from Henry David Thoreau\u2019s essay of that name, though alternatively he called it \u201cThe Wild\u201d\u2014so \u201cWalking the Wild\u201d takes us to what lurks inside it all, including the origins of revolution and ownership in the tyrannies of industrial time and privacy. We also here (in this first of a two-part discussion) talk about walking itself as an act and about getting lost as well as how, Thoreau writes, \u201cIn wildness is the preservation of the world\u201d\u2014 which was to become the motto of the Sierra Club. Thoreau is a bewilderer who postulates things about 150 years ahead of his time and saw this work as \u201c\u2026an introduction to all I may write hereafter.\u201d