![]() ![]() ![]() On 3 December 1860, he caught a cold, which exacerbated a dormant case of tuberculosis. Nor can we know what insights he might have extracted by applying the principles of variation and natural selection to his beloved woods and fields. We will never know how far Thoreau might have extended these ideas. Seguidor y amigo de Emerson se definió a sí mismo como un místico, un trascendentalista y un filósofo de la naturaleza. 3 A leading transcendentalist, 4 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. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) nació en Concord, Massachusetts, y estudió en Harvard. Thoreau's essay on forest succession was an early response to a world Darwin had introduced, made wonderful by science. Henry David Thoreau (J May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. ![]() And there is a wondrousness in a natural world that is blindly self-directing, driven by struggle and contingency, authored by itself. The countless complex interactions necessary to produce a single maple, he discovered, need involve nothing intelligent, omniscient or all-seeing. Millions of seeds and spores are produced and broadcast by wind and animals only a few plants find their niche. Thoreau's point - like Darwin's - was that nature's fecundity had produced a world of wondrous scope and intricacy. ![]() That passage has much in common with the final paragraph of Origin, describing an “entangled bank, clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes”. ![]()
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