This book was written in the middle of19th century, when capitalism was developing rapidly. Under the background at that time, people pursued interests and tried their best to get higher rights and more money. Industrial comity and noisy society are squeezing human beings and eroding human nature. In this context, the wise man who graduated from Harvard, alone with an axe, ran into the forest near the uninhabited Walden Lake. He is a maverick, with a yearning for nature, quietly set foot on the roadbed of this soul. In Walden Lake, a land called "a drop of God", he is calm in space and lonely in thought!
"I like to have leisure in my life. Sometimes, on a summer morning, I take a shower and sit in front of the sunny door as usual. From the sunrise of the red sun to the noon of the sunny sun, sitting in this forest of pine trees, hickory trees and lacquer trees, far away from the hubbub, sitting alone and silently, meditating. "
He quietly unloaded the noise of the city and wrote loneliness with his heart. Every time I read his book, it is a shock. He thinks about life and makes my heart as clear as clear water. He awed me. It turns out that human life is like this. His life is so simple and fragrant, though short and profound. His spiritual world is gorgeous and exquisite, and there are many such wise men in the world.
Thoreau's short life, he tried to encourage people to simplify life, make time to go deep into life and taste life. Through his own life experience, he told the world not to be confused by the complicated life, thus losing the direction and benefits of life. Be the helmsman of life and set sail. He believes that if people can live a simple life stipulated by the laws of the universe, they will not disturb their inner peace so anxiously. The so-called tomorrow will never come, even if time ends. The light that blinds us is darkness to us. When we wake up, the dawn is coming. there is still a lot of time. The sun is just a morning star.
He advocates a frugal life, not to let us live frugally or frugally, but to let us listen to the new rhythm, which may be a person's value, but to be lonely, quiet and without any affectation.
The author pursues loneliness by Walden Lake, but he is also pursuing profundity. He wants to think and explore life with a lonely mind. Loneliness gave birth to his profound thoughts. "Don't give me love, money, fame. Tell me the truth. " This is his inner voice.
Go and read this textbook of mind! It will make you glad you came.
Although we can't appreciate Thoreau's lonely mountain life, although Walden Lake has disappeared forever, all this can't stop us from having a clear Walden Lake in our hearts, which can always wash our hearts. According to Thoreau, explore your heart!
After reading Chapter 7 of Walden for 26 months, there is not only a distance between politeness and primitiveness, but also a quiet and noisy dialogue. As a meditator, henry thoreau, an American writer, lives in seclusion in a wooden house built by himself by Walden Lake in Decheng, Cambridge, and leads an isolated and leisurely life-building a house, building a building and growing beans, which is "miserable".
He said: "I came to this forest only because I wanted to live a quiet and introspective life and have time to deal with the most essential problems in life." Walden Lake is beautiful, and Thoreau never tires of repeating one thing, fishing, baking cakes and understanding tourists; A day of pious work, rest and reading. Walden Lake is beautiful, and the Woods change in the morning and evening. It is a lake with different seasons, and eagles fly low in the swamp. This is the Eden where Herb, the goddess of youth, passed. Although the weather is cold and hot, spring has come. "If it is spring, it will be calm, and the sky will be blue; Sha Ou Ji Xiang, swimming in the brocade scale; The shore is green and green. " In spotless beauty, we begin to "examine" the cold material world where polite people need lead.
"The footprints left by polite people are only desolate." Primacy and politeness, separated by time, separated by human way. In that era of eating animals and blood, people feared and cared for it; But in this era of singing every day, human beings provoke it and exploit it! This is a ferocious human face exposed to selfish desires! "You insult the earth and dare to talk about heaven." Thoreau said angrily, but in spite of this, Walden Lake is still growing, just like nature forgives our unrestrained blows and ignores our ridiculous madness with a strong attitude.
The beauty of nature is a freedom after returning to nature. Li Taibai understood this truth, and his career was frustrated and he lingered in the mountains and rivers of the motherland, and a pot of wine was drunk to the fullest. Tao Qian understands this truth, and he is not proud to bend his back for three buckets of rice. He lives in seclusion in the Peach Blossom Garden where there are no miscellaneous trees and delicious herbs. Zhouzhuang understands this truth, heaven and earth are one and indisputable.
Mencius said, "Count them, and you can't eat them." The elders at home said, "You can eat mountains by relying on mountains." The gift of nature was cherished by the ancients, but we trampled on it. We regard it as dirt, and people will regard it as a treasure in the future.
Nature is a poor and elegant wise man. She walked calmly through the years of drift from place to place, lost her face by war and smoke, but still proudly smiled at the world. On the other hand, we must be kind and kind to the environment in order to be immortal.
Reflection on Chapter 7 of Walden III This is a bit like What if Sean? The story in Pan Wandering. Thoreau believes that combined with his own experience, it proves that people can live a simpler and quieter life without having to let go of the pursuit of material development. Thoreau completed his depth. In the days of "measurement" and "Walden Lake", Thoreau once again became a polite life for people to travel.
People living in modern times are almost free to build cement high-rise buildings and cement roads, without dust, while groundwater pollution, ozone hole over Antarctica, our life and health are eroded by acid rain. When we conquer and transform nature, we also give ourselves an ecological trap, which leads to a vicious circle, so we can only exchange it for the convenience brought by the frustration of returning to nature. When we enslave our ancestors, respect nature, and even deify nature worship, the same children and grandchildren tear, enslave and rule nature in turn. Reading Walden Lake can make the polluted water quiet, make the heart cool, make the heart more calm and carefree, and reduce the impulse. In fact, it is not a fashion, but a necessity.
Beans and building houses, baking bread and enjoying the most polite people in the city are distant dreams. Nowadays, city life is becoming more and more convenient and advanced. Who else yearns for it? In a land where the natural environment is getting more and more tense and shrinking, where can anyone have such a dream?
After reading it, I can't fully understand Thoreau's behavior, and the thoughts and behaviors related to his book can't be recognized. Many years later, one summer night, I was walking on the beach in the bay. Suddenly, you should have a unique aesthetic interest in nature parks. I realized that Thoreau and his book Autumn Lantern Lake are very similar to the rich and hermits listed.
Finally, I understand that no matter how humble your life is, you should show it on your face and it is not easy to escape. Even if you are poor, your love of life. Even in adversity, you still have moments of happiness, happiness and pride.
The people Thoreau saw, life there was like living in a palace, living happily and willing to be calm and peaceful.
Chapter 7 of Walden 4 Walden describes Thoreau's seclusion at the lake for two years. He described the novelty and perfection of nature, and extended infinite emotion and thinking. He combined two years of observation and thinking into one year to write. The laws of nature are immutable. Thoreau was a free man. He has extraordinary life skills and can get rid of worldly fetters. Most importantly, he is willing to explore the unknown world-this world also includes his heart. He encourages people to be pure and simple, and dare to act according to people's higher nature.
The silence of Walden gives the author space to think, which makes the author get rid of boring social activities to some extent. He seems to be alone by the lake, but he hasn't cut off contact with the outside world. To be precise, what Thoreau hates is the lack of sincere and enthusiastic social activities, which are often associated with luxury. On the contrary, nature is often closer to the truth.
Standing by the clear blue lake, the wooden house he built with his own hands is his residence for thinking. He came there by intuition and his own will to carry out his life experiment. The 300-page paper reveals the fixed habit of "I" as a way of life. The author's seclusion by the lake is indeed-as he said-an experiment of life. And lead the readers to get unspeakable enlightenment with him in the development of the plot. Post-mortem film review
Limited by my shallow life experience and knowledge, I dare not say that I can read these hundreds of thousands of words thoroughly, not to mention that it contains too much information. However, in any case, everyone's conclusion will be the same, but the degree of understanding is different. Indeed, this book is difficult to read, and all impetuous emotions have to be abandoned. On the other hand, only quiet people can sing with such noble thoughts in quiet time and space. Once you read this book with a calm heart, you will benefit a lot.
What we read is not the stream of praising and criticizing "benevolence, righteousness and morality", but the truth. What the book describes is true nature, which is quite different from the noise of the city. The sound of birds, animals, insects and fish singing by the lake is closer to the truth of nature. In a broader sense, the author emphasizes spiritual calm and exploration, not simply' leaving the world and retreating into the mountains'. Some people, like him, are eager to own a forest of their own. This is obviously not in line with his ideological realm. The real Walden Lake is a way of life, which exists in the hearts of the author and everyone, not just in the mountains. It is worth noting that the author is always an occupier by Walden Lake. Even if the author lives in a metropolis, he can still explore the inner ocean according to his own wishes.
However, the author regrets that the city is too far from the truth. Cities are based on people's consciousness and have long been filled with narrow human concepts. The author fled the city and lived in seclusion by the lake; Similarly, he also escaped from the fixed mode of thinking and lived in seclusion in the thought of freedom and loneliness. The author is so chaste that he feels that he can never be absolutely pure; It was too late to mourn his animal nature, and he put forward new requirements for himself to coexist with the higher nature of human beings.
He doesn't pursue fame and fortune, and he is confused by our stubborn way of thinking. Sometimes you think he is turning right from wrong. In fact, every time a quick-thinking person follows his own thoughts, jumps over the barriers of decadent ideas and realizes the true meaning. Therefore, poverty can be wealth, labor can be slavery, time-wasting barbarism can be noble, intelligence can be stupid, buying can be free, and ultimately it can be complicated and simple. If you want to do all this, you have to return to the most basic spiritual essence. Homogeneous words
The simplicity of water endows it with the richest connotation. Just like the substance synthesized by scientists, no matter how complex it is, it can't surpass the simplicity of water. Walden Lake is also an insurmountable peak.
Reflections on Chapter 7 of Walden 51More than 60 years ago, an American named David Thoreau lived in seclusion by Walden Lake for three years, and built a small house by himself, fishing, cultivating, meditating and writing. Finally, a great collection of essays Walden Lake was born. Walden has deeply influenced a generation. Many great people have read this book, which is still being read by people today. This book has also been selected by the Library of Congress as "25 books to shape readers".
Harding once said that Walden Lake is rich in information and has far-reaching benefits. It is an authoritative guide to simple life, a true description of nature, a crusade against the money society, a literary masterpiece handed down from generation to generation and a sacred book. Walden
Thoreau's love for Walden Lake, his love for the cabin, his love for the forest, his love for the small animals in the forest, and his love for all things in nature are all between the lines. How romantic! When reading this book, I often try to put myself in Thoreau's position. I think I lived sincerely at that time. Everything in the book is so natural without affectation and affectation. The so-called spiritual purification refers to this! What is even more impressive is that every time you read it, you will have a brand-new feeling. Plain sentences contain the most profound philosophical thoughts, and many places must be read repeatedly to appreciate their emotional richness!
Reflections on the seventh chapter of Walden 6 Thoreau's Walden takes spring, summer, autumn and winter as the line, connecting the beginning and end of his economic experiment on the bank of Walden in series, 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 position as the spirit of all things for that little material wealth". In Walden Lake, the author takes Walden Lake as the center and radiates to many places around him, describing many details of his life, such as "taking animals as neighbors", "farming in the bean field" and "interacting with people in the village". 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 truth." Look! This is an extraordinary and indisputable naturalist, how enviable.
Thoreau lived in Walden Lake and its surrounding area, but his exquisite style brought us to a wider world. He talked about "birds, trees, grass and insects around Walden Lake", and even talked about "higher laws". He believes that fishermen, hunters and others are all part of nature, but in a special way. He rose from personal work to a higher human law, which broadened our horizons and established a strategic position. In Walden, many paragraphs are worthy of re-evaluation and intoxicating. When describing "Baker Farm", he wrote: Even Droid would put down his oak forest and run to worship them. You can imagine what a beautiful place this is and how fascinating it is.
Throughout Walden Lake, nature has always been the main background, with the earth as the seat and the sky as the cover. Thoreau cultivated and harvested in the vast world like a farmer. He is very happy. He said: Ancient poems and myths at least proved that farming is a sacred art, and in the process of farming, he did not forget to "read". Even in the19th century, Thoreau felt deeply: they believed 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 commodities, the mind of modern people is like a boat floating in the sea. Rich in material and poor in spirit. Our bodies swell again and again, but the spiritual territory is always barren. Listen to Thoreau's advice: the rest of the wealth can only buy the rest. Nothing can buy the necessities of the soul. Such advice, like Sanskrit, is tantamount to awakening for us.
Xu Chi said: "This is a fresh, healthy and inspiring book, and its description of spring and dawn is very touching." Let's follow Thoreau's footsteps, abandon the boredom and distress brought by material things, feel the quiet beauty and listen to the philosophical voice of the master.
Comments on Chapter 7 of Walden Lake To some extent, Walden Lake is like an article on animals and plants in Concord's local chronicles. It is true that Thoreau spent most of his life by Concord and Walden Lake, and he always devoted himself to observing and studying birds, animals, plants and flowers, as well as the changing process of the seasons throughout the year.
Thoreau's descriptions of red and black ants, gray-backed falcons, red squirrels and foxhounds are always so vivid and fascinating that they can really be said to be rare chapters in the world.
Thoreau used a lot of space in this book to talk about the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and there are many wonderful fragments of the harmonious coexistence between man and plants, birds and animals.
Not only that, he also advocated the harmonious coexistence of all ethnic groups within society. Since ancient times, the owners and aborigines of the North American continent have been Indians of various tribes. After the European colonists arrived in the New World, they not only killed innocent Indians, completely destroyed the long-standing Indian culture and lifestyle, but also held an extremely discriminatory attitude towards Indians. As we all know, Thoreau, as a gentleman, did the opposite.
Thoreau talks about the world and the present in his book, while defending fairness and condemning the disadvantages of the times. At the same time, many intentional criticisms and suggestions were put forward, and the information was very extensive, involving food culture, housing construction, ecological environment, school education, farming, fishing and hunting. Thoreau's behavior and remarks made me think.
In today's China, people's encroachment on the ecological environment can be seen everywhere, and environmental governance has become a major problem of social harmony. Let's not talk about other ecological species, just say trees!
Trees are our first food. Eating and living in a tree has brought us the most fundamental home. Trees can do this. What about other animals and plants? I think their ecological function must also be great. Then why should human beings destroy and kill them unscrupulously?
Nature has given mankind so much, and mankind should reflect on it and be grateful to the greatest mother on earth!
Reflections on Chapter 7 of Walden 8 When reading Walden, I will describe Thoreau's appearance in my mind: a pair of deep eyes, a determined face and a vicissitudes of beard. I can't help wondering what kind of life experience has made such a profound person.
Thoreau's life is lonely, and he seems to enjoy it. Thoreau once said, "I like being alone." I have never met a better partner than loneliness. "1March 845, he borrowed an axe, ran to the uninhabited forest near Walden Lake, cut wood by himself, built a hut by Walden Lake, and lived in the hut for two years, two months and two days. When he came to Walden Lake, he thought he had found an ideal way of life.
In these two years, Thoreau lived a primitive and simple life alone. 1847 Back to Concord. 1848, staying at Emerson's house. He suffered from lung disease and died in Concord City on 1862 at the age of 45. Like him, Walden, written by him, is lonely and enjoys loneliness. Since the birth of 1854, not only has it not attracted public attention, but even some people who should be close to it don't understand it, and even turn a blind eye to it or even sneer at it. It never seems to cause a sensation and noise. It has been waiting silently for a century, and it is still not tired or lonely. It tells every reader about a boy's lonely time by the lake.
Thoreau's life was peaceful. He meditated calmly in the vibrant morning light of Walden Lake in spring, walked along the path of insects on the lake in summer, recorded colorful autumn in English in autumn, and described the trajectory of falling snow and the shape of ice crystals in winter. In this way, he "spent every season; Breathe air, drink water, taste fruits, and let yourself feel their influence on you. " Walden recorded every quiet, serene and simple day he spent in the cabin. The words are as light as breathing in a dream, and the faint taste makes people relaxed and happy. It seems to comfort those who are not alive: "Although I am not rich in the world, I have countless sunny days and summers."
Thoreau's life was wise. In his secluded life, Thoreau was always meditating. Thoreau does not exclude the material enjoyment brought by modern technical politeness, but criticizes us for not making good use of it, as he commented, "self-defeating". "We connected the cable across the ocean, but we used it to ask Princess Adelaide if she had cough and asthma. We didn't use it to communicate human thoughts. We built the railway, but we took it to the city to kill time. " However, Thoreau's benefit to society is not only criticism, but also guidance. He will not hesitate to expose the problems existing in society, and he will also point out the solutions responsibly.
If we find that we can't resist the temptation of this complicated material world at all, then the best way is to be simple. The objective world and human society are complicated, but our knowledge enables us to choose the right way of life, and we have enough courage to abandon other surplus things, no matter how contemporary people tell us what to do. Walden is full of analysis of life and criticism of customs, with unique views and thought-provoking. This is an essay with profound philosophy. Anyone who has read Walden carefully knows that people should explore how to live a real life and how to experience and experience a useful life.
Thoreau, in his short life, tried to encourage people to simplify their lives and make time to go deep into life and taste it. Through his own life experiments, he told the world not to be confused by the complicated life, thus losing the direction and benefits of life. He believes that if people can live a simple life stipulated by the laws of the universe, they will not disturb their inner peace so anxiously.
In today's materialistic world, people begin to get lost and hesitate, and Thoreau's spirit becomes more precious and important. The feeling and experience of being condensed in a Walden Lake is worth studying and practicing all your life. How to find inner peace and calm, how to feel happy in loneliness, how to get rid of the messy interpersonal network and re-examine yourself, maybe you will be inspired by Walden.
Walden Lake is not only a lake, but also a different Walden Lake in people's dreams. As Thoreau said, "A really good book taught me more than just reading. I must put it aside as soon as possible and live according to it. I started studying and finally took action. " I firmly believe that we will all reach the dream Walden Lake.