Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition - introduced by noted American writer John Updike - celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden - as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.
在晨光中涤荡尘怀 ——再读梭罗《瓦尔登湖》 题记:在一个变化迅速的时代,真有一种危险,那就是信息灵通和有教养是互相排斥的两件事情。要信息灵通,就必须很快阅读大量只是指南手册之类的书。而要有教...
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评分 评分「当一个人离群索居时,才可能体会出生命的意义」梭羅 是的,我同意,因为孤独是必要的,因为孤独可以使生命恢復完整,可以回到自我的根源,求得身心安顿。 梭罗这麽说:「若是一天裡有几个时段可待在自己的空间裡,完全忠实的面对自己,真是一大释放,它们可以...
评分立秋前后,我读了这本书。很薄,只有三百多页,断续看了三天,把其他正在读的书都停下了,很有点迫不及待的味道。 今年夏天,北京几乎就没怎么热过。立秋这几天,一直在下雨,迫使人取消某些户外活动。 昨晚我去五道口,正是雨最大的时候,一群人躲在易初莲花的...
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation
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评分我追求的人生境界
评分老了再讀一遍吧...
评分Don't want more than you need.//His singleness of purpose and resolution, and his elevated piety, endowed him, without his knowledge, with perennial youth. As he made no compromise with Time, Time kept out of his way, and only sighed at a distance because he could not overcome him.//挑着读了三分之一,或许现在不是对的时间;希望有朝一日可以与之相遇。
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