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.
发表于2025-04-01
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10.23至11.9,每天用睡前的时间重读完了。这本书的对我而言已经非常亲切,特别是最开始读的那章,隔着书都能听到作者的坚定反问,“两个住得最远的居民之间离得有多远?那颗星的直径我们的仪器都测不出来,我为什么会感到孤独?”由此也可见,梭罗也是很喜欢争辩的,他不是隐士...
评分http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/personal/hehh/swsb/sp/03.htm 梭罗和他的湖 一 想为一本寂寞的书打破一点寂寞,此愿巳久,这本书就是梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》。 这本书在一八五四年出世时是寂寞的,它不仅没有引起大众的注意,甚至连一些本来应该亲近它的人也不理解,对...
评分我是律法,我是王国 去动物园我最喜欢看猴山。猴山上,偶尔会有一只离群索居的猴子,待在一块狭小的只能容下它一个的山峰顶上,或者是在冷清的湖边对着自己的影子。它的周围是你追我打、嬉闹不停的群猴,是为了一点游客丢下来的果皮就可以抢夺不休的群猴。它...
评分觉得这版的翻译糟糕,读不下去,如翔在喉? 花钱买了失望又后悔? 不要后悔! 这位版税即将破百万的李继宏老师在广播内宣布: “楼上那些瞎逼逼的,你们去找本书看了再来会死吗?去买本我译的《瓦尔登湖》,看了不满意,拿发票来找我退钱,双倍。” - 伯恩斯李 http://www.do...
评分《瓦尔登湖》很像是指导人做人的教科书。 中学时代听说这本书陪伴海子走完了他最后的岁月,便好奇地看。断断续续,没有兴致,没有耐心。直到这个夏天,迫于某种任务的压力再把非剧情的文字串起来时,竟有种敬佩的感动。 作为一个哈佛毕业生,梭罗的归隐似乎比很...
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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.
1,做作;2,话唠。感觉像是一场show,梭罗一方面强调清心寡欲淡泊出世回归自然,一方面又瞻前顾后锱铢必较处处算计啰里吧嗦形式主义,好虚伪啊……
评分文笔太牛逼了~美好的研究生英语回忆哇哈哈
评分第一次开启Kindle上的shared highlight功能,书里好些精彩段落都有几百个人不约而同的划线,于是一本描写独自生活的书,读的时候也不觉得孤独了。
评分老了再讀一遍吧...
评分无疑,会过日子的男人才是好男人!!!
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