Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed
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About This Book
The writing of this little book has given me a great deal of pleasure. That is why I hope that, here and there, it may give pleasure to others. And yet it was not an easy task. Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harder still is it to translate Nature's lessons to others. Besides, the appeal of Nature is to the Emotions; and words are weak things (save in the hands of a great Poet) by which to convey or to evoke emotion. Words seem to be the vehicles rather of ratiocination than of emotion. Is not even the Poet driven to link words to music? And always le mot juste, the exact word, is so diffi...
Chapters (279)
- OF WALKS AND WALKING TOURS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- I Golf and Walking
- § 1
- II The Essence of a Walk
- § 2
- III Notable Walkers
- § 3
- IV My Earliest Walks
- § 4
- V India
- § 5
- VI English Byways
- § 6
- § 7
- VII A Spring Morning in England
- § 8
- VIII Autumn Reveries
- § 9
- IX Spirituality of Nature
- § 10
- § 11
- § 12
- X Practical Transcendentalism
- § 13
- § 14
- XI Spring in Canada
- § 15
- § 16
- XII Autumn in Canada
- § 17
- XIII Winter in Canada
- § 18
- XIV The Mood for Walking
- § 19
- § 20
- XV Evening Meditations
- § 21
- § 22
- § 23
- XVI The Unity of Nature
- § 24
- § 25
- § 26
- § 27
- § 28
- § 29
- XVII The Instinct for Walking
- § 30
- XVIII A Woeful Walk
- § 31
- XIX Autumn in Canada Again
- § 32
- § 33
- § 34
- § 35
- § 36
- § 37
- § 38
- § 39
- § 40
- § 41
- § 42
- XX The Walking Tour
- § 43
- § 44
- XXI The Tramp's Dietary
- § 45
- § 46
- § 47
- § 48
- § 49
- XXII Practical Details
- § 50
- § 51
- § 52
- XXIII The Beauty of Landscape
- § 53
- § 54
- § 55
- § 56
- § 57
- § 58
- § 59
- XXIV Warnings to the Over-Zealous
- § 60
- XXV How that all points to the Infinite
- § 61
- § 62
- § 63
- XXVI The Pleasures of Walking
- § 64
- § 65
- § 66
- § 67
- XXVII Is Walking Selfish?
- § 68
- XXVIII The Pæan of Being
- § 69
- INDEX
- v
- vi
- vii
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
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- 9
- 10
- 15
- 16
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- 18
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- 21
- 22
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- 30
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