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De la simplicité !
Tournant le dos à la civilisation (argent, travail, réussite sociale), Thoreau s’installe seul près de l’étang de Walden. Il livre alors une réflexion à rebours de l’opinion commune : se contenter du strict nécessaire et prendre le temps de profiter de la vie et de la beauté de la nature.
« Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n’affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu’elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n’avais pas vécu. »
Une réflexion sur la société moderne, un éloge de la vie simple par l’une des figures de proue de la littérature américaine.
« Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n’affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu’elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n’avais pas vécu. »
Une réflexion sur la société moderne, un éloge de la vie simple par l’une des figures de proue de la littérature américaine.
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Published April 6, 2017
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Henry David Thoreau
2,420 books6,738 followersHenry 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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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.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....
http://www.biography.com/people/henry...
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June 17, 2019
La pensée de Thoreau est si actuelle mais elle n'est pas aisée à lire
November 2, 2025
« Je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n’affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu’elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n’avais pas vecu »
« Nulle face que nous puissions donner à une affaire jamais ne nous présentera pour finir autant d’avantage que la vérité. Celle-ci seule est d’un bon user »
« Si humble que soit votre vie, faites y honneur et vivez la ; ne l’esquivez ni n’en dites de mal. Elle n’est pas aussi mauvaise que vous. C’est lorsque vous êtes le plus riche que vous êtes le plus pauvre. »
« Les choses ne changent pas ; c’est nous qui changeons. Vendez vos habits et gardez vos pensées »
« Je me suis assis à une table où nourriture et vin riches étaient en abondance, et le service obséquieux, mais où n’étaient ni sincérité ni vérité ; et c’est affame que j’ai quitté l’inhospitalière maison. »
« Nulle face que nous puissions donner à une affaire jamais ne nous présentera pour finir autant d’avantage que la vérité. Celle-ci seule est d’un bon user »
« Si humble que soit votre vie, faites y honneur et vivez la ; ne l’esquivez ni n’en dites de mal. Elle n’est pas aussi mauvaise que vous. C’est lorsque vous êtes le plus riche que vous êtes le plus pauvre. »
« Les choses ne changent pas ; c’est nous qui changeons. Vendez vos habits et gardez vos pensées »
« Je me suis assis à une table où nourriture et vin riches étaient en abondance, et le service obséquieux, mais où n’étaient ni sincérité ni vérité ; et c’est affame que j’ai quitté l’inhospitalière maison. »
December 2, 2018
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