- Walking by Henry David Thoreau - 1862 ... in Wildness is the preservation of the World Return to: Thoreau Reader Introduction: Simply Walking - by Mark Stabb Walking in three parts: One - Two - Three Walking began as a lecture called The Wild, delivered by Henry at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. He gave this lecture many times, developing it into the essay finally published in the ...eserver.org/thoreau/walking.html