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Vivere secondo natura

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Le necessità dell’uomo possono essere ricondotte a quattro sole cibo, riparo, abbigliamento e combustibile. Rinunciando a ciò che è superfluo, e abbracciando così un’esistenza all’insegna della semplicità e dell’autonomia, saremo in grado di guardarci intorno con occhi ci accorgeremo di conoscere in verità «solo pochi uomini, ma una gran quantità di soprabiti e calzoni»; di non saper godere dell’aria aperta, mentre le nostre esistenze sono diventate domestiche più di quanto potevamo immaginare; scopriremo che, in fondo, «il viaggiatore più veloce è quello che va a piedi». Vicinissimo alla sensibilità dei nostri tempi, questo volume – tratto dal capolavoro Walden – è un vademecum irrinunciabile per imparare a vivere secondo natura e prenderci cura del mondo che ci circonda.

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Published July 29, 2021

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Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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August 29, 2024
Libro che offre un punto di vista interessantissimo, e soprattutto una voce fuori dal coro per la nostra società abituata al consumismo (ormai legge nel nostro mondo).
Dovremmo tutti rinunciare alle comodità e lussi più inutili per riavvicinarci alla vera essenza della natura e dell'uomo. Ma è più facile a dirsi che a farsi.
Offre una chiave per il successo economico e nella vita , anche se ovviamente negli anni 50 dell'800 in America la situazione era molto diversa rispetto a quella attuale...
4 stelle perché comunque non è il mio solito genere, ma nonostante ciò l'ho molto apprezzato ^^
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December 16, 2024
Avendo letto il suo libro principale, questo sembra solo una repetitio. Ciononostante ha dei punti interessanti in linea con quello che sappiamo essere stato il suo pensiero.
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