Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje

By Henry David Thoreau

2017

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Pocos escritores o pensadores han tenido la puntería y el pulso de Henry David Thoreau. Pero a Thoreau no le gustaba la caza, así que usaremos otra metáfora: digamos mejor que pocos escritores o pensadores han sabido extraer la miel del mundo a partir de una sola flor, pocos han estado tan dotados para ese aforismo, esa frase o ese breve fragmento tras cuya lectura sentimos que algo destella, que algo en nuestra vida puede cambiar, que se despliega un conjunto inédito de posibilidades existenciales. Los libros de Thoreau, sus ensayos, sus diarios, sus poemas, sus cartas y sus manuscritos inéditos son una fuente inagotable del pensamiento más luminoso e inmediato, aquel que nos golpea en la cara como una ráfaga inesperada de aire fresco y vivificador. Desde esta premisa, hemos recorrido toda su obra y hemos recogido en este volumen una amplia antología de los mejores pensamientos de Thoreau: aquí se trata sobre la belleza y el azar, la aurora y el crepúsculo, la amistad y la imaginación, la moda y la dieta, la libertad y la insumisión, la música y el silencio, los indios y la sabiduría, la simplicidad y el dinero, los viajes y la soledad, los árboles y los pájaros, el trabajo y el amor, la muerte y lo que nos salva, lo salvaje en la naturaleza y en nosotros mismos, los libros y el inextinguible deseo de leer, lo sagrado en el cielo y en la tierra, la felicidad de las marmotas y de los humanos, los paseos por el bosque y también por la ciudad, la estaciones y el ciclo interminable de la vida… Un verdadero regalo para todos aquellos que, tal como dijo Thoreau, saben que todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje.

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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. 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...