Thoreau and his book, Walden, has been inspirational in my life. Thoreau was stimulated by the natural things he found in life; he shunned the artificial. The manufactured collections that most of us work on through our lives are bogus -- and costly: we sweat, we labour, we toil, we worry: and we rarely ask ourselves to what purpose? Happily for Thoreau, and for all of us, a ticket to nature is free. For Thoreau …showed first 75 words of 562 total…

…showed last 75 words of 562 total…the number they have already passed, then, I express my delight to think that I might lead another human being, one who is most likely an overworked and troubled human being, to Henry David Thoreau. To my loving Margo, to my family and to every new person who discovers Thoreau, I devote this work and Thoreau's quote: "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!"