Walden

by Henry David Thoreau, Tonny Mustika (Translator)

Pada tahun 1845, Thoreau pindah ke hutan dekat kampung halamannya di Concord, Massachusetts. Dia tinggal di sebuah gubuk yang dibangunnya sendiri, di tepi Telaga Walden. Walden adalah karya otobiografi Thoreau tentang eksperimen hidup sederhana dan mandiri di alam liar selama dua tahun. Thoreau menganggap bahwa hidup yang berfokus pada hal-hal esensial dan menyatu dengan alam lebih memuaskan daripada pengejaran akan kekayaan.

Genres: Classics

453 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2025

About the author

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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Reviews

[Alejandro Vásquez Bernal]

" No afirmo que todos vayan a reconocer este potencial. Pero su presencia no depende del reconocimiento. El tiempo por si solo no lo hará aflorar. Solo la conciencia puede hacerlo. La luz que podría depertarnos a menudo nos parece oscuridad porque aún no estamos preparados para verla. Solo el día en que estemos despiertos comienza de verdad. Y siempre queda más día por delante.

El sol que vemos es solo el comienzo.

Henry David Thoreau. Pag 310.
Walden.
La vida en los bosques