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How I began my lifelong walk with Henry Thoreau.(The Home Forum)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20020304
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Byline: Carl C. Wright

"I know what your trouble is," my wife called when I entered the house one wintry afternoon after working two hours in my greenhouse.

"What's that?" I asked.

"You have spring fever," she said.

Actually, she was wrong, even though we were experiencing two weeks of bitter and almost sunless weather that prevented my daily walks. More than that, I longed for a tramp in field and wood.

In the essay "Walking," Henry David Thoreau states that he could not stay in his chamber for a single day "without acquiring some rust." Thus, I had ...

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