Walden

Here is a passage by Thoreau in the essay entitled ‘Walking,’ “Where is the literature that gives expression to Nature?   He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who derived his words as often as he used them, -transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like