"Walking" is from Henry David Thoreau’s essay of that name, though alternatively he called it “The Wild”—so “Walking the Wild” takes us to what lurks inside it all, including the origins of revolution and ownership in the tyrannies of industrial time and privacy. We also here (in this first of a two-part discussion) talk about walking itself as an act and about getting lost as well as how, Thoreau writes, “In wildness is the preservation of the world”— which was to become the motto of the Sierra Club. Thoreau is a bewilderer who postulates things about 150 years ahead of his time and saw this work as “…an introduction to all I may write hereafter.”