Walden and Civil Disobedience - Thoreau, Henry David
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and…mehr

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. "
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Autorenporträt
Henry D. Thoreau, geb. 12. Juli 1817 in Concord/Massachusetts, gest. 6. Mai 1862 ebd. und begraben dort im Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sohn eines Bleistiftfabrikanten hugenottischer Abstammung, Literat, Naturforscher, Landvermesser, war ein Entdecker, der zu Hause blieb, sein Ich erforschte und das Heimatstädtchen nie länger als für ein 4jähriges Studium in Harvard verließ. Quittiert seine Lehrerstelle, weil er sich weigert, die 'körperliche Züchtigung' anzuwenden; Freundschaft mit Ralph Waldo Emerson, auf dessen Waldstück am Waldensee er 1845 in einer selbstgebauten Hütte lebt; aus dem Tagebuch entsteht 'Walden'. Auf dem Weg ins Städtchen wird er verhaftet, weil er aus Protest gegen die US-Kriegs- und Sklavenpolitik keine Steuern bezahlt hat; konzipiert im Gefängnis 'Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat'. Tod an Tuberkulose.
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'Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in himself. ... He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable.' Mohandas Gandhi

'I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.' Martin Luther King, Jr