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Henry David Thoreau nació y murió en Concord (Massachusetts). Fabricó lapiceros, midió fincas, navegó ríos, mareó caminos, contempló nubes, buscó, se pensó, nos escribió. Vivió del 12 de julio de 1817 al 6 de mayo de 1862. Tuvo en su biblioteca más libros escritos por él que por otros. Apenas publicó en vida, pero nos dejó un legado escrito inagotable. Thoreau nos invitó a pasear, a contemplar, a pensar, a escribir. Ahora además, nos invita a volar y cantar. Y a mirar las aves, porque las aves son la mejor puerta de entrada a la naturaleza.

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La presente edición ha sido realizada por Antonio Casado da Rocha y José Ignacio Foronda, y traducida por Eduardo Jordá. No es traducción de una edición previa, sino que ha cribado los escritos de Thoreau desde 1837 a 1862 en busca de sus aves más representativas. La mayor parte de la selección estaba inédita en castellano.

144 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2016

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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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Yo también sueño con que mis diarios estén llenos de pájaros, Thoreau, y que así sea <333
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"Incluso a estas alturas del año se oyen los opulentos trinos del tordo (...). Transforman cualquier hora del día en una eterna mañana. Destierran toda trivialidad. Me devuelven a mis dominios, me convierten en el dueño de la creación, y son el maestro de capilla de mi pequeña corte. Echo de menos la vida salvaje, una naturaleza sobre la que no pueda poner el pie, unos bosques en los que cante eternamente el zorzal maculado y donde las horas siempre sean las primeras horas de la mañana, y en los que haya rocío sobre la hierba y el día no pueda ser acusada de nada, donde pueda tener un fértil desconocido en el suelo que me rodee. Me gustaría cuidar vacas, me gustaría vigilar para siempre mis rebaños de Admeto, a cambioo tan sólo de ropa y comida. Una especie de interminable New Hampshire, antes de la expulsión del Paraíso"
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February 12, 2023
Resumen rápido: Sal de tu casa, toca un poco de pasto y mira los pájaros
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