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Enlightenment
May 2009 
Walking -- Henry David Thoreau
Posted on Jan 9th, 2009
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Michael
Michael
Walking
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
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Michael,
As I wander free and private in the wilderness I am blessed to be part and parcel of, I'm ever happy to know there are other beings and entities here, whose right to be here is equivalent but not greater than my own. We are a community of forest denizens.
I am happy to have the centering experience of being removed from all artificiality. Though physically present in that natural world, my own thoughts go out removed from nature, at the beginning. Still in that artificial world I am letting go of.
Those beginning thoughts being the last of artificiality. For just a brief time while I hike, I am able to release all of that, and just flow with what is - naturally. Part and parcel thereof.
Admiring Thoreau,
Deborah