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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I have met with but on...

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden (1854), a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience (1849), 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 ...

A collection of quotations by Henry David Thoreau, famous American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, and philosopher.

Henry David Thoreaus berühmtes Pamphlet "Vom Ungehorsam gegen den Staat" (1849) ist eine unvergänglich gültige Streitschrift für die Freiheit des Einzelnen in Denken und Handeln, getragen von stilistischer Finesse und staunenswerter poetischer Kraft. Seine Thesen zu Demokratie und passivem Widerstand inspirierten zahllose Menschen- und Bürgerrechtler, unter ihnen Mahatma Gandhi und Martin Luther King. Im eindrucksvollen Essay "Vom Gehen" propa...

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Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

In wildness is the preservation of the world, " -- A lecture by Thoreau which became one of the seminal works of the early environmental movement.

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Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government, " which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, "Resistance to Civil Government." Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonviolent means, Thoreau's essay is just as applicable today ...

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Camminare e altri passi scelti" è una selezione di scritti di Henry David Thoreau, impreziosita dall'introduzione del filosofo Leonardo Caffo. È libro più completo e approfondito sul tema del cammino e del viaggio in Thoreau. Oltre all'oramai celebre Camminare (Walking, 1851), un ispirato e appassionato saggio breve in cui si affrontano i temi classici in Thoreau della natura selvaggia e del vagabondare, il volume propone alcuni passi inediti ...

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine"--thus begins "The Maine Woods, " the evocative story of Thoreau's journeys through a familiar yet untouched land. As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning "highest land"), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the...

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A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the beauty of New England, here Thoreau¿s characteristically wide-ranging and philosophical style offers a multitude of fascinating observations. Excursions presents Thoreau¿s most studied and expansive collection of writing on the natural world. An early advocate of conservationism, he discusses here, in mesmerising prose, the complex but essential relationship between man and nature. Th...

Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning. He did more than write-he declined to pay his taxes, and was hauled off to gaol in consequence. Who can say how much this refusal of his hastened the end of the war and of slavery ? At the present day, intellectual detachment from the State, and individual defiance of its beh...