As a result, his essay is told by the voice of the confident narrator, given some authority. Above all, the author’s correspondence with friends provides not only his lecture career but also his works and his writing process. In over ten years of walking, Thoreau kept observing nature, organizing his thought, and considering the best way to express his lecture his diary shows what elements in his daily life influenced his environmental view and motivated him to write it. As Rebecca Solnit has stated in “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, the rhythm of walking could be the sources of music, conversation, thoughts, and literature. “Walking” has autobiographical side of Henry David Thoreau as well, and reflects the author’s personal experiences. "Walking" is a transcendental essay that analyzes the relationship between man and nature, trying to find a balance between society and our raw animal nature. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. It was written between 18, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851.
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