Henry David Thoreau
/ˌhenri ˌdeɪvɪd θəˈrəʊ/
/ˌhenri ˌdeɪvɪd θəˈrəʊ/
- (1817-62) a US writer and poet who believed strongly in the rights of individual people. As an experiment he lived a simple life for two years (1845-7) in a small wooden house near Concord, Massachusetts, and then wrote about this in Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854). He also wrote the essay Civil Disobedience (1849), a work that influenced such leaders as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King to protest in a peaceful way.
亨利·戴维·梭罗（Henry David Thoreau）：（1817-62）美国作家和诗人，他坚信个人的权利。作为一项实验，他在马萨诸塞州康科德附近的一间小木屋里过着简单的生活，生活了两年（1845-7），然后在瓦尔登（Walden）或《树林中的生活》（Life in the Woods，1854）中写下了这一简单的生活。他还撰写了《公民抗命》（1849年），该著作影响了圣雄甘地和马丁·路德·金等领导人以和平方式进行抗议。