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Caminar y una vida sin principios
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Published July 1, 2021
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Henry David Thoreau
2,391 books6,722 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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October 14, 2022
- Del prólogo: ...alcanzamos a inquietarnos por el voraz aprovechamiento con el que nos acercamos a la naturaleza, y además ideamos maneras de vivir en ella consciente y no intrusivamente...nos planteamos cómo es justo que vivamos en la sociedad, cómo vivir en el aquí y el ahora y cómo ser salvaje, es decir, cómo actuar sin perder eso primigenio, inmoderado y vital que hay en nosotros..."Sobre todas las cosas no podemos permitirnos no vivir en el presente".
- La vida concuerda con lo salvaje. Lo más vital es lo más agreste. Aún no sometido al hombre, su presencia lo refresca. Quien persista en seguir adelante y nunca descanse de sus labores, madure pronto y le haga infinitas exigencias a la vida siempre se hallará en un nuevo país, en una tierra virgen, rodeado de la materia prima de la vida, trepando por los troncos postrados de los árboles de bosques primitivos.
- El genio es una luz que hace visible la oscuridad, como el destello del relámpago, capaz de hacer añicos el templo mismo del conocimiento, no una vela encendida en el hogar de la raza que empalidece ante la luz de un día cualquiera.
- Hay algo servil en la costumbre de buscar una ley a la que obedecer. Podemos estudiar las leyes de la materia según y para nuestra conveniencia, pero una vida plena no conoce ninguna ley. Ciertamente es un descubrimiento desafortunado el de una ley que nos ata a lo que antes no nos sabíamos atados. Vive libre, hijo de la niebla, pues respecto al conocimiento todos somos hijos de ella.
-...al igual que un montículo de nieve se forma cuando cesa el viento, podríamos decir que una institución surge cuando cesa la verdad. Pero nuevamente la verdad le sopla encima y, a la larga, la derriba.
- La vida concuerda con lo salvaje. Lo más vital es lo más agreste. Aún no sometido al hombre, su presencia lo refresca. Quien persista en seguir adelante y nunca descanse de sus labores, madure pronto y le haga infinitas exigencias a la vida siempre se hallará en un nuevo país, en una tierra virgen, rodeado de la materia prima de la vida, trepando por los troncos postrados de los árboles de bosques primitivos.
- El genio es una luz que hace visible la oscuridad, como el destello del relámpago, capaz de hacer añicos el templo mismo del conocimiento, no una vela encendida en el hogar de la raza que empalidece ante la luz de un día cualquiera.
- Hay algo servil en la costumbre de buscar una ley a la que obedecer. Podemos estudiar las leyes de la materia según y para nuestra conveniencia, pero una vida plena no conoce ninguna ley. Ciertamente es un descubrimiento desafortunado el de una ley que nos ata a lo que antes no nos sabíamos atados. Vive libre, hijo de la niebla, pues respecto al conocimiento todos somos hijos de ella.
-...al igual que un montículo de nieve se forma cuando cesa el viento, podríamos decir que una institución surge cuando cesa la verdad. Pero nuevamente la verdad le sopla encima y, a la larga, la derriba.
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