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YEARNING TOWARD WILDNESS, A
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Written by
Tim Homan
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Illustrated by
Rusty Smith
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Hardcover: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-035-0
Total Pages: 166
Size: 5 x 8-1/2
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Adult/Nonfiction
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Tim Homan is an experienced hiker and outdoor writer and the author of several hiking guides. He lives in Georgia.
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ENVIORNMENTAL QUOTATIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU had a decidely modern mind, and many of his writings prove startlingly applicable to today's world. An environmentalist, a nature lover, and a strong individualist, he spoke his mind without concern for controversy or common beliefs.
Here, compiled by Tim Homan, is A Yearning Toward Wildness, the best of Henry David Thoreau on a variety of topics still important to us today, including conservation and preservation, hunting and trapping, and vegetarianism, as well as the bittersweet category of "wish it wer still here." Many of his quotations will stir familiar memories as well as strong feelings about the world we live in, a world Henry knew was coming. A Yearning Toward Wildness will provide inspiration and insight for our hectic lives.
- Individualism: "If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Trapping: "What a pitiful business is the fur trade... that you may rob some little fellow-creature of its coat to adorn or thicken your own...."
- Conservation: "Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
- Courage: "Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pigmies, and not be the biggest pigmy that he can?"
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Reviews
"This eloquent collection of quotations, drawn from [Thoreau's] diaries and published writings, celebrates the natural beauties of America and laments the wanton destruction of the continent's animals and plants.... Homan's anthology makes Thoreau's ideas accessible to readers leery of tackling the 19th-century prose of Walden." Los Angeles Times Book Review
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