他追求精神生活,關注靈魂的成長,他驕傲地宣稱:“每個人都是自己王國的國王,與這個王國相比,沙皇帝國也不過是一個卑微小國,猶如冰天雪地中的小雪團。”梭羅以他的實際行動告訴我們:人們所追求的大部分奢侈品,大部分的所謂生活的舒適,非但沒有必要,而且對人類進步大有妨礙。----- 摘自【百度百科】
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 practice 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.