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noble savage

no·ble sav·age (plural no·ble sav·ag·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
somebody leading simple life: somebody belonging to a nontechnological culture whose life is, according to an idea popularized by Rousseau, purer because it is closer to nature ( sometimes offensive )

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