Part I: Thoughts on reading Walden Lake
Thoreau's Walden Lake connects the beginning and end of his economic experiments on the shores of Walden Lake with spring, summer, autumn and winter, leaving me with endless imagination and envy.
In this book, we can understand the truth that "people can live very simply and calmly, and don't have to lose their lofty status as the spirit of everything for that material wealth". In Walden Lake, the author takes Walden Lake as the center and radiates to many surrounding places, describing many details of his life, such as "taking animals as neighbors", farming in "bean fields" and interacting with people in "villages". Finally, the author ended with "Spring" and played a new life movement for us. In the "Conclusion", he said: "Don't give me love, don't give me money, don't give me fame, give me the truth." Look! This is an extraordinary and uncontested naturalist, how enviable.
Thoreau lived in Walden Lake and its surrounding area, but his delicate and exquisite style brought us to a wider world. He talked about "birds, trees, grass and insects around Walden Lake", and even more about "higher laws". He believes that in a special sense, fishermen, hunters and others are all part of nature. He rose from personal work to a higher human law, which made us broaden our horizons and build a strategic position. In Walden, many paragraphs are worth tasting again, which makes people intoxicated. When describing the "Beck Grange", he wrote: Even Droid will give up his oak forest and run to worship under them. You can imagine what a beautiful place this is and how fascinating it is.
in the whole Walden, nature has always been the main background, with the earth as the seat and the sky as the cover. Thoreau cultivated and harvested like a farmer in the vast world. He was very happy. He said: Ancient poems and myths at least show that farming is a sacred art. In the process of farming, he also did not forget to "read". Even in the 19th century, Thoreau sighed with emotion: They were convinced that the wisdom of a Bible was enough, and they spent the rest of their lives in simple reading materials. Under the surging tide of commodity, the mind of modern people is like a boat floating into the sea. Material abundance, spiritual poverty. Our body expands again and again, but the spiritual territory is always deserted. Listen to Thoreau's advice: excess wealth can only buy excess things. Nothing can buy the necessities of the soul. Such advice, like Sanskrit, is nothing less than an awakening to us.
Xu Chi said, "This is a fresh, healthy and inspiring book, with a very touching description of spring and dawn." Let's follow Thoreau's footsteps, abandon the boredom and distress brought by the material, feel the quiet beauty and listen to the master's philosophical voice.
chapter 2: thoughts on reading Walden
in the afternoon, I read Thoreau's Walden again and again, which was really touching. His writing is simple, but his thinking is unique. I'm sure that is a wise old man. I know that he was not very old when he lived alone in Walden Lake, and even when he died, he could not be called an "old man", but he gave me a feeling of broadness, composure and wisdom that only an old man can have. He is accompanied by loneliness, but he is not depressed. He loves nature so passionately, travels and depicts nature with childlike imagination. He actively explored the relationship between man and nature and firmly maintained the classical ecology of nature. He believes that only in nature can human beings keep their pure and beautiful nature. So enthusiastically eulogize the goddess in my heart-Walden Lake. Isn't this a sacred place that everyone should keep in his heart?
I am ambivalent about Thoreau. While I believe that he has the peace and wisdom of an old man, I can always see such a figure in my mind: a lonely child walking alone by the lake or in the forest, without panic or helplessness; Looking at the flourishing growth of everything, my heart is full of joy. It seems that he also participated in the creation, and he can grow up with it. That ease and complacency made him the king of the forest; However, he never wants to be above all things. He just wants to be a child of nature forever.
Yes, he is a natural child, but this is not a child who keeps chattering about the novelty of the world. I am often amazed at his curiosity and calmness. He looked at everything quietly, whether it was a noisy city or a quiet mountain forest. He thinks quietly, thinking about the great creativity of human beings, and also thinking about their self-centered behavior. He is a venerable man. With a quiet and pure heart and a noble and intelligent head, he looked down on all beings. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, he foresaw the present situation one or two hundred years later. He cares about human beings and despises them. He is worried that all good things will disappear with the development of people's utilitarian purposes, and Walden Lake will also become a lake of memory. Even the memory will fade away until it is gone.
before, I always thought I could live like Thoreau. I'm even trying to do that, but unfortunately I live in a small town that is not prosperous but not lonely. I can't get a piece of land that belongs to me, of course, it is impossible to have a real landscape, except to fill the balcony of a high-rise building with all kinds of green plants. Although my life is simple and I appreciate the purity of life in simplicity, mundane things in the world can still haunt me; I like Shan Ye, but I can't really return to the countryside.
Thoreau loved Walden as a lover. Because of the deep love, it is not allowed to be destroyed; Living in a civilized society, we just want to preserve a kind of wild dream to comfort ourselves. So Thoreau had a unique temperament and greatness different from ordinary people.
Chapter 3: Thoughts on Reading Walden
More than 16 years ago, an American named David Thoreau lived in seclusion by Walden Lake for three years, built a hut by himself, fished, cultivated, meditated and wrote, and finally gave birth to a great collection of essays, Walden Lake, which has attracted everyone who read it, and today.
We seem to see a 28-year-old young man named Thoreau, who came to Walden Lake, two miles from Kant Town, alone. In the shortest time, he spent less than $28 and built a practical cabin by himself, and lived there for two years, two months and two days. During these two years, Thoreau made his own living. He planted crops such as beans, radishes, corn and potatoes around the cabin, used the harvested fruits to fill his stomach and subsidize his family to buy daily necessities, and lived a primitive and simple seclusion life entirely by his own hands.
Whether it's sunny, rainy or thunderous, you can see Thoreau walking alone in the lush nature, alone, facing the lake and the mountain forest very simply and quietly. Life is as lukewarm as spring water, and as dawn in summer, it is full of mystery and sunshine.
In the article, Thoreau described the story of one hundred Irish people who came to Walden from Cambridge to dig ice in winter. They brought all kinds of tools, cut the ice on the lake into cubes, and then loaded them into cars and sold them in the market. The behavior of the ice digger is the plunder of nature by human beings. Thoreau was deeply hurt, and he sharply criticized: "They stripped Walden of its only coat, no, stripped it of its skin, and in such a cold winter!" In Thoreau's view, this ice is by no means a commodity, but the embodiment of spiritual and beautiful nature. It will enlighten you, purify your mind and make you find eternity in nature.
Thoreau shows readers with his own practice, encouraging people to simplify their lives, free up time to go deep into life and taste life. Through his own life experiments, he told the world not to be confused by the complicated life, thus losing the direction and meaning of life. "If people can live in the simple living stipulated by the laws of the universe, they will not be so anxious to disturb their inner peace."
By describing the beautiful lakes and mountains of Walden Lake, the author shows his unusual rich feelings and nature of being close to nature, and expresses his desire to convert to nature and his reprimand for destroying nature.
The pressure and tension in real life put a heavy yoke on each of us. Thoreau's Xanadu and simple life may also be the expectation of you and me many years later, at least from the bottom of my heart.