Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes referred to retrospectively as an anarchist, but may perhaps be more properly regarded as a ''proto-anarchist''. In his seminal essay, "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau wrote as follows:
"I heartily accept the 'That government is best which governs least;' and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I 'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.... But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but ''at once'' a better government."Provided by Wikipedia
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Walden and civil disobedience / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Desobediencia civil / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Desobediencia civil y otros escritos / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Walden ó Mi vida entre bosques y lagunas / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Un filósofo en los bosques / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Walden / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Walden, or, Life in the woods ; On the duty of civil disobedience / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Walden and other writing / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Walden, or, Life in the woods ; and On the duty of civil disobedience / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Walden, or, Life in the woods ; On the duty of civil disobedience / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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The living thoughts of Thoreau / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Collected essays and poems / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Selected writings on nature and liberty / by Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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El pensamiento vivo de Thoreau / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Walden, ó, La vida en los bosques / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Forjadores de una nación / by Padover, Saul K.
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Los anarquistas / by Horowitz, Irving Louis, 1929-2012
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