Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a CreedHaultain, Arnold
Philosophy
Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed
Haultain, Arnold
Outdoor life; Walking
Thoreau, Henry D., 12;
quoted, 200, 201
Thought, a struggle to conceive the infinite, 131
Time, subjective character of, 91, 92, 95
Toronto, 119
Tragedies, 124 _et seq._
Transcendentalism, practical, 40 _et seq._
Troglodytic families, 138
U
Unity, a spiritual, 112, 113
Universe, the, imagined as a sphere, 91
Uxbridge, 23
V
Van Dyke, Henry, 13
W
Walk, the essence of a, 5 _et seq._;
a woeful, 105 _et seq._
Walkers, notable, 9 _et seq._
Walking tour, preparations for a, 133 _et seq._
Walking tours, 133 _et seq._
Walks and walking, effects of golf upon, 2 _et seq._;
essence of, 5 _et seq._;
proper frame of mind for, _ibid._;
the mood for, 72 _et seq._;
the rivals of angling, 75;
instinct for, 103, 104;
the pleasures of, 198 _et seq._
Walks, my earliest, 15 _et seq._;
in Burma, _ibid._;
in India, 17 _et seq._;
in England, 21 _et seq._;
on the Sussex Downs, 25 _et seq._;
in Buckinghamshire, 31 _et seq._;
in Canada, 45 _et seq._;
on the banks of the Otonabee, 47 _et seq._;
by the Georgian Bay, 53 _et seq._;
on the outskirts of an Ontarian country town, 59 _et seq._;
a woeful walk, 105, 106;
from Toronto, along the Kingston Road, 107 _et seq._;
over one of the Passes of the Jura, 149, 150;
on the Grand Salève, 167 _et seq._;
early on Monday mornings, 205, 206;
of a Sunday before breakfast, 208 _et seq._
Walton, Izaak, quoted, 72, 73, 74
Warnings, 180
Whiting, Charles Goodrich, 13
Will, 96, 97;
freedom of the, 99 _et seq._
Winter in Canada, 62 _et seq._
Wood, Edith Elmer, quoted, 143 _et seq._
Woods, Canadian, 63 _et seq._
Wordsworth, William, quoted, 7, 111, 112
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[1] See Henry D. Thoreau's "Walden"; "A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers"; "Winter"; etc.
[2] See John Burroughs, his "Birds and Poets"; "Locusts and Wild Honey";
"Pepacton"; "Signs and Seasons"; "Wake Robin"; "Winter Sunshine"; etc.
[3] See Richard Jefferies, his "Amateur Poaching"; "Field and Hedgerow";
"Wild Life in a Southern County"; "Nature near London"; "Round about a
Great Estate"; "Wood Magic"; "The Story of my Heart."
[4] See Hamilton Wright Mabie's "In the Forest of Arden"; "Under the
Trees and Elsewhere"; etc.
[5] See Henry Van Dyke's "Fisherman's Luck, and some other Uncertain
Things"; "Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness"; "Days
Off, and other Digressions"; etc.
[6] See "In the Green Leaf and the Sere," by "A Son of the Marshes."
Edited by J. A. Owen. Illustrated by G. C. Haïté and D. C. Nicholl. Also
"Drift from Longshore," by the same author and editor.
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