![]() ![]() I carried straightway to the village the topmost spire, and showed it to stranger jurymen who walked the streets–for it was court week–and to farmers and lumber-dealers and woodchoppers and hunters, and not one had ever seen the like before, but they wondered as at a star dropped down. But, above all, I discovered around me–it was near the end of June–on the ends of the topmost branches only, a few minute and delicate red conelike blossoms, the fertile flower of the white pine looking heavenward. I might have walked about the foot of the tree for threescore years and ten, and yet I certainly should never have seen them. It was a tall white pine, on the top of a hill and though I got well pitched, I was well paid for it, for I discovered new mountains in the horizon which I had never seen before–so much more of the earth and the heavens. I found my account in climbing a tree once. We hug the earth–how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. ![]() ![]() Here are five of the most relevant and compelling passages from this work: Download the full text for FREE: ![]() Yesterday marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau.Īlthough best known for his books Walden and Civil Disobedience, one of Thoreau’s most poignant works for our fast-paced world is his treatise on walking. ![]()
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