Thoreau said, " Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" . Don't be resigned to that. Break out.

「大部分人生活在平静绝望中」别就此认命，而应该奋力突破。

The first name I read was Henry David Thoreau, the prophetic essayist and abolitionist.

我读到第一个名字是Henry David Thoreau，一个预言散文家和废奴主义者。

But Thoreau was a loner, a dreamer. Few shared his ideas.

但梭罗是一个孤独人，一个梦家，所以没有人分享他法。

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

亨利·大卫·梭罗和拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生。

Some people would argue that the American transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau was a minimalist.

有些人认为美国超验主义哲学家亨利·戴维·梭罗是一个极简主义者。

Henry David Thoreau, If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success, unexpected in common hours.

亨利·戴维·梭罗，如果一个人能胸地朝着梦进，努力实现他生活，他会与成功不期而遇。

American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, for example, spent two years of his life in a self-built house at a lake near the town of Concord, Massachusetts.

例如，美国哲学家亨利·大卫·梭罗在马萨诸塞州康科德镇附近湖边自建房屋中度过了两年时间。

For this is the place, Henry Thoreau once wrote, “that a man may stand still and put all America behind him”.

就这个地方，美国哲学家梭罗曾写道：“有人可能会在那里站着发呆，把整个美国都抛诸脑后。”

And when Thoreau became determined to get away from it all in 1845, he retired to Walden Pond, a mere mile-and-a-half away from the nearest village.

而当1845年梭罗坚决要离世隐居时，他选择了瓦尔登湖，一个离周边最近村落仅有一英里半地方。

Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more important efforts.

当然，梭罗不赞成忍饥挨饿，但他在食物方面投入精力只是为了让自己得以从事更为重要活动。

The ideas of Gandhi and Thoreau -- non-violence and civil disobedience -- could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans.

甘地和梭罗非暴力和非暴力反抗思，可以一起用来为美国黑人争取平等权利。

Word experts claim that by the time Henry David Thoreau used the expression in 1849, it was already a commonly used one.

词汇专家称，当亨利·戴维·梭罗在1849年使用这个短语时，它已经是一个常用短语了。

You know, American poet, Henry David Thoreau once said, it's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

美国诗人亨利·戴维·梭罗曾经说过：重要不是你在看什么，而是你看到了什么。

No one knew this better than Henry David Thoreau, who lived nearly all of his too-short life in Concord, Massachusetts.

没有人比亨利·戴维·梭罗更明白这一点，他短暂一生几乎都住在麻萨诸塞州康科德镇。

Like I was thinking of myself more like a Henry David Thoreau or like a Jack Kerouac.

好像我把自己得更像亨利·大卫·梭罗或者杰克·凯鲁亚克。

He taught his followers never to use violence. Thoreau also urged people to disobey laws that were not just, and to be willing to go to prison for their beliefs.

他告诉自己追随者永远不要使用暴力。梭罗也鼓励人们不要遵守不公正法律，而且要愿意为了自己信仰进监狱。

On March 11th, 1856, Thoreau described in his journal a contempt for wealth and traveling compared to the simple life and the streams, woods, and natural phenomena he encounters in his own village.

1856年3月11日，梭罗在日记中描述了他对财富和旅行蔑视，相比之下，他更喜欢简单生活，以及自己村庄里遇到溪流、树林和自然现。

The fault-finder, I got the name from the work of Henry David Thoreau, the fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

消极者，这名字出自梭罗书中，消极者甚至在天堂都能找到缺陷。

She argues that early American environmentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, have been misread as its champions.

她认为，拉尔夫? 瓦尔多? 爱默生和亨利? 大卫? 梭罗等早期美国环境保护论者都被误读为了荒野崇拜信奉者。

Thoreau never tired of gazing at his beloved pond, nor have we outgrown the quiet beauty of our frumpy, analog world.

梭罗从未对凝视他心爱湖感到厌倦，我们也仍能欣赏这个世界回归老派步调后沉静之美。