how is the greatest hippy ever, give me your ideas. in my opinion it has to be dylan from the magic roundabout
Jim Morrison. or Donovan. I don't think there is one GREAT hippie. But there are some pretty far out ones.
the greatest hippie ever is the "unknown hippie"........but my second choice could be the short hair guy bellow...
Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, the rest of the prankster scene along with the Dead/Big Brother & The Holding Company scenes.
as well as Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman*, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Lee Weiner, and Jerry Lefco. *especially Abbie
Picking a greatest hippie seems as futile as picking a greatest musician, or actor, or milkman. My answer is…..everyone who is/was thought to be or has ever thought they were a hippie.
I'd say Henry David Thoreau. Just because he was so far-out and independent-thinking for his time, and put a lot of ideas in the heads of Americans that I think may have helped out the hippie thing in the 60s and 70s. My dad always told me that "Thoreau was sort of the first hippie," and I never understood why until reading "Walden." ~Nova
henry david thoreau was awesome, but he wasn't the first hippie. i'd say jesus christ is closer, and he was pretty radical too.