Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Chapter 1: Economy
2013-11-5
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The life which men prai and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expen of the others?
生活中的平均数Comment:
T苹果格式化horeau mentioned in the first chapter that he had weaved a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but he studied rather how to avoid the necessity of lling them. Maybe Thoreau thought not a successful life was pleasant, but a simple, plain and independent life was what he purd. Many other people had eager for success, while Thoreau just wanted to know what was really esntial in life through his lf labor.
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They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man’s discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itlf.
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I have quoted this ntence just becau I think it is beautiful and that distinguishes a literary giant from tho online writers in China today. In terms of this aspect, I think nobody could compare with him in describing natural beauties becau he was clost writer to the nature.
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人文与社会 In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s lf on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wily: as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.
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Thoreau maintained himlf solely by the labor of his hands, and he found that only by working about 6 weeks in a year could he meet all the expens of living. So, you e, we can do a simple person, need peace and persistence. Although many people live a humble and mediocre life, they are really content and happy.
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Endeavor to become one of the worthiest of the world…
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We may first be as simple and well as Nature ourlves. We know that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man, so we don’t need to be an overer of the poor but live a worthwhile life, he spent 6 weeks a year working and did what attracted him just like literature in the rest time. He didn’t waste the time but devoted himlf to writing and the rearch into nature.
炒卷心菜Chapter 2 Where I live, and what I lived for
2013-11-6
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I found mylf suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one , but having caged mylf near them.
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Thoreau lived in Nature, and that was his answer to where he lived. Unlike many people who rai birds in their homes, Thoreau put himlf in nature and lived clo to the birds. P画植物eople need freedom and the same with the birds, with all the creatures in the earth. I am jealous of Thoreau’s tour of Walden.
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One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you e that earth is not continent but insular.
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Thoreau敢想敢为 wanted to tell us that we should go outside of our own world and take a look at the outer world or we should sometimes treat the things around us from another angle
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herlf.
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Thoreau was a sincere worshipper and he believed in getting up early. He knew that “renew thylf completely each day; do it again, and forever again.” A person who has a dream won’t lie in, which is what our teacher has told us, and I think Thoreau’s dream wa
s to be himlf, to discover his conviction and realize it.
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That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life ,and is pursuing a descending and darkening way..
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All intelligences awake with the morning and we must believe that we will do better today than we did yesterday. Thoreau again convinced us of the importance of cherishing the prent.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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Brief as it is ,this ntence really express Thoreau’s determination to stay awake.
2013-11-7
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I went to the woods becau I wished to live deliberately, to front only the esntial facts of life, and e if I couldn’t learn what it had to teach, and not , when I came to die , discover that I had not lived.
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Thoreau ud the word ‘deliberately’ to show that he did not want to waste any and cond in life. He has said he wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. 送你一朵小红花观后感Thoreau spent 4 hours a day strolling and to keep vigorous and another 4 hours reading all kinds of books. He endeavored to be a worthy man.
