Sign in with Facebook
140 books
—
218 voters
“Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.”
― Walking
― Walking
“What we will call beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boated so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?”
― Walking
― Walking
“There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
― Walking
― Walking
“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man -- a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.”
― Walking
― Walking
“Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.”
― Walking
― Walking
Around the World in Books
— 290 members
— last activity Jan 23, 2025 10:15AM
This is a book club for people who would like to read a book about a different part of the world each month. The goal is to see how many countries we ...more
The History Book Club
— 25683 members
— last activity 3 hours, 19 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Fahad’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Fahad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,832 books
|
4,350 friends
5,729 books
|
2,441 friends
1,322 books
|
622 friends
403 books
|
72 friends
745 books
|
18 friends
412 books
|
102 friends
255 books
|
144 friends
178 books
|
46 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Fahad
Lists liked by Fahad
