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Thoreau’s Walden See more pictures about Walden Made by 沈丹 contents Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Thoreau’s house Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to chop down tall pines with which to build the foundations of his home on the shores of Walden Pond. From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. Once settled, he restricted his diet for the most part to the fruit and vegetables he found growing wild and the beans he planted. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry woodchucks or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, and writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). He also made entries in his journals, which he later polished and included in Walden. Much time, too, was spent in meditation. 梭罗的研究专家哈丁说，《瓦尔登湖》至少有五种读法 １．作为一部自然的书 ２．作为一部自力更生、简单生活的指南 ３．作为批评现代生活的一部讽刺作品； ４．作为一部文学名著； ５．作为一本神圣的书 I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of live, 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 ——Thoreau Chapters Economy Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Reading Sounds Solitude Visitor The Bean-Field The Village The Ponds Baker Farm Higher Laws Brute Neighbors House-warming Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors Winter Animals The Pond in WinterSpring Conclusion Synopsis First, he was escaping the dehumanizing effects of the Industrial Revolution by returning to a simpler, agrarian lifestyle. Second, he was simplifying his life and reducing his expenditures, increasing the amount of leisure time in which he could work on his writings The themes self-realization simplicity self-fulfillment. The chapter I love best:Spring My opioion: