Henry David Thoreau and Health in Nature

James Engell Gurney Professor of English, Harvard University As if he had always been looking to the future, Thoreau’s idea of health remains relevant. He senses the danger of environmentally-linked and environmentally-caused illness. He promotes wellness of body, mind, and spirit together, which achieves harmony with nature through diet, exercise, sensory contact, and ethical self-reflection. The idea of human health in relation to nature informs all that he wrote and appears for two decades throughout his journal.https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/ideas_of_nature_gallery/1007/thumbnail.jp