瓦尔登湖读后感英文版WALDEN

第一篇：瓦尔登湖读后感英文版WALDEN

You Make Me Calm Down In my opinion, you can’t read this book clear if you can’t keep heartsease.As Kung Fu Panda said, you need keep inner peace.Reed this book is read the writer’s life style, it just like you practice Kong Fu;you wouldn’t play it well unless you concentrate on it.Walden is a masterpiece written by Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862），who was born in Concord, Massachusetts.In the Walden, Thoreau not only advocated the protection of nature, but also encourages people to comprehend and return to nature.He told us using his own experience that by living a simple life close to nature, we human beings will find out the true value of life and significance of existence.After reading, what impressed me most are the shocking poets, especially this short poet: “There was a shepherd that did live, And held his thoughts as high

As were the mounts whereon his flocks Did hurly feed him by.”

He lives in such a liberty life that beyond thought, it just wash, wash his entire mind, it’s the dream that we can’t forget.Thoreau's though of enjoying a simple life has a more realistic significance and have become a valuable spiritual wealth in our modern society.With the development of the material civilization, people's desires are swelling limitlessly and many people are busy with the pursuit of wealth and luxurious life by any means, including at the expense of nature.However, even in the society materially affluent and technologically advanced , people are not be more happier than those people who lived centuries ago, but even feel less satisfactory and complaint more about their present life as a result of having unbounded desires of getting more and better.Therefore, many people who possess a lat have become slaves of machine, working more but do not have the ability to enjoy what they have.Reading this book is like having a tranquil steam flow through my heart, washing the dust in my mind.It teaches me how to keep a pure spirit in the complex society, set proper goals for my life as well as enjoy the endows of nature.In short, I feel it quite worthwhile to read the book Walden.I sincerely hope more and more people would like to read this book and receive benefits from it.He attempted to encourage people to simplify the life and spare the time to go deep into the real life.At the same time, he let them enjoy it.He told people not to be confused with complicated life by his own experiences.In the direction of Thoreau, they would not lose a flash of hope or lose their way in life.They should be a rudder of the life thus start on a new journey.He thought that if people were able to set the simple life by universe regulation, it would not arouse many anxieties which disturbed the inner peace of the heart.The so-called tomorrow would not approach in spite of the ending of the time.We regarded a flash of light as darkness.As we were sober, the first light of morning was going to break.He calls on people live a simple life that is in order to make people experience something new instead of saving money.Maybe this is the value of a person.There’s not any pretence, only be surrounded with solitude and quietness.At the shore of Walden, the author exactly chased for depth, rather, it was pursuing the depth.In a lonely state of mind, he thought about the life and explored the real meaning.Solitude inspired his profound thought.“Do not give me love, money or reputation, please give me the truth.” This was what he was calling in his heart.Though we can’t live a life in woods around the mountain and Walden has disappeared forever, it’s impossible to hinder us have a Walden of our own.Our heart need being clarified as Thoreau has said that let your spirit set out to explore.However, every one lives in a certain society thereby one's behavior is more or less influenced by forces not of their own making.And to operate normally, every society has its laws, though many times have differences among them.It is true that humanity plays an essential role in ruling individuals' behaviors;yet laws are necessary.Under the control of laws, people who have little individual responsibility would probably not dare to do any crime in fear of law punishment.Besides laws, for example in school, rules are also an important factor as well as individual responsibility.Nowadays, in most universities, a student who does not pass some certain courses in his four years college life would not get his diploma of bachelor's degree.So even if a student does not like his discipline, or dose not care about his GPA, the pressure of graduating forces him not to playing computer or basketball all the time.Read over, although I may not live a life just like Thoreau, I’m really calm down and live a simple life.This, I think, is author’s except for.

第二篇：《瓦尔登湖》英文读后感

Why you need Walden

Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, mainly talks about the writer’s life and thoughts;during he lived alone in the woods near Walden Pond.This book belongs to your soul, before you read it, you have to be alone, when you finish it, you may enjoy your loneliness.Reading this book, you will enjoy the journey of the beautiful natural environment around the Walden Pond, you will walk into the woods, you will touch the cool water of the lake with your finger, you will see the autumn leaves floating in measure down to the ground.It’s that simple, it’s the authentic records about a man backing to nature, backing to himself and innocence, backing to basics, and becoming a part of the great universe.Life in Walden isn’t a running away from reality, it is some kind of precipitate about living alone in the natural environment, and it’s a peaceful and quite living status.Reading this book, you will think about the humanity, civilization, society, life, money, death, and yourself.The great thinking of Thoreau isn’t about any kinds of guiding for personal growth or chicken soup for the soul.It’s that simple, just some description about everyday life, and the sound of nature, personal feelings and so on.But when you read it, your soul will feel peace even you stand right in a market full of noise.This book has its magic to make you feel quite and calmness，but the important thing I think, is that we need to find our own Walden in our heart by reading and thinking the simple and deep thoughts in this book.We need strength to be brave to live.We ask these questions everyday——How should we face with our incredible or miserable life? How should we deal with the moment that we want to run away from reality? How should we find some nooks in out heart to put our sorrow？

That is the answer.“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, 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.I didn’t wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”

We deal with every kinds of things everyday, we feel tired, because we get used to make complicated solutions;we feel bored, because we get used to being in a complicated rut.“I do believe in simplicity.It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day;how singular an affair he thinks he must omit.When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms.So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.“

Sometimes we need simple, because simple is the direct way to get the key.The Walden records the writer’s own micro-universe as a whole in the course of experience.This book doesn’t just left us a record of a man lived in the forest, this book provides a way to make us thinking about human and dilemma, nature and social world, the most important, how to keep ourselves in this noisy and complicated world.We all mean to be alone, but it’s not depression, it’s the inner peace in ourselves.There is one Walden in the world, and it’s belongs to Thoreau only, but we all looking for our own Walden.“To be awake is to be alive.”

第三篇：瓦尔登湖英文读后感

瓦尔登湖英文读后感

篇一：瓦尔登湖英文>读后感

Read through some of the more than half of the 'Walden Pond', to be honest look at a lot of paragraphs do not really understand, but say it is fun sections of animals that people read fresh.The first animal is the rooster attention, and that the most common birds, however the author's pen in the air all of a sudden and very poor.Thoreau is the author described them this way: the rooster, pheasant was originally, and their chirping is the world's most beautiful music, better than all the other animals, but most of the time to fill the gaps in their voice is their wife-the mother chickens are noisy, it's no wonder that they ultimately can only be the poultry, not to mention what kind of a chicken egg.These words can not help people desperately want to remember the music Chenming rooster, the result was a loss, except in writing from the mechanical 'oo' sound.As for the hen, they can only remember them after the end of each time it is under the 'giggle' to stop the Called.Walden Pond, how can there are so many wild animal? Every day it seems that the author and not the name they say hello.Are familiar with Ant, but where the ants are like the soldiers how to ah, make that an ant war was afraid to read the small bio of contempt.Lovely fledgling partridge destitute people, they only obey the instinct of mothers and their own Oh, the fullness of their long feathers of the body of small branches and leaves together to maintain the same posture, where to stay motionless, It picked up when a stranger or follow it, it continues to stay as motionless, or take your eyes clean.Scary, of course, most diving birds, and it always sent laugh, when it is from this lake first dive, the observer much hunting or after a lot of fun.what it is, you can go to the bottom of the lake to fish in the bird.After all the human animal is, ah, just high-level animals.The author predicted that the result of human progress must be to give up meat, as the savage to the civilized around after people give up bad habits, like eating.I do not know human beings are not one day give up meat, it is very curious about the rabbit call.In the book, the author said: rabbit to the end, the truth was a child cry.On rabbits, the most profound impression that the tree hit a hare, but there is no written record of our had been a poor hunt rabbits.篇二：瓦尔登湖英文读后感

Closing the white cover of the book ’Walden’，I just quite confused because so many new words that I can’t recognize.With the help of Chinese version downloaded from the internet, after I catch the general idea, a burst of cold water pours into my heart, pure and limpid, clarify my shattered mind without any dirt existing.As some said in preface “Walden is a book with loneness and solitude and a book with a single person.” When your mind is uneasy, you have no need reading the book.It requires you to come down and to be at leisure.The book was written in the middle of the 19th century-a period that is a rapid development of capitalism.Under such a background, most people would rather pursue benefits as possible as they can and try every means to obtain higher power and money no matter what it would cost.Industrial civilization and noisy society was gradually corrupting the nature of the humanity.However, at this situation, a illuminati graduating from Harvard University, carried an axe along with his lone single shadow.Then away from the city he ran into the uninhabited Walden at the edge of the mountain forest and settled down over here.He insisted on his own ways with a yearning for nature as well as set out the trace of the soul.At the land of the so-called Walden” drops of god”。He became unperturbed in space，lonely in thought.He quietly uploaded the noise in the city.Then he wrote down the solitude by heart.Every time when people read his book, they definitely will be shocked.He fell into meditating about the life.It made people’s heart become as clear as the pure water.I stand in awe of him, his life turned out to be such simple and meanwhile glamorous.It is rather than momentary but significant.His spiritual world is colorful even exquisite beyond compare.Maybe in the world seldom exist such a sage like him.Throughout Thoreau’s short lifetime, he attempted to encourage people to simplify the life and spare the time to go deep into the real life.At the same time, he let them enjoy it.He told people not to be confused with complicated life by his own experiences.In the direction of Thoreau, they would not lose a flash of hope or lose their way in life.They should be a rudder of the life thus start on a new journey.He thought that if people were able to set the simple life by universe regulation, it would not arouse many anxieties which disturbed the inner peace of the heart.The so-called tomorrow would not approach in spite of the ending of the time.We regarded a flash of light as darkness.As we were sober, the first light of morning was going to break.He calls on people live a simple life that is in order to make people experience something new instead of saving money.Maybe this is the value of a person.There’s not any pretence, only be surrounded with solitude and quietness.At the shore of Walden, the author exactly chased for depth, rather, it was pursuing the depth.In a lonely state of mind, he thought about the life and explored the real meaning.Solitude inspired his profound thought.“Do not give me love, money or reputation, please give me the truth.” This was what he was calling in his heart.Though we can’t live a life in woods around the mountain and Walden has disappeared forever, it’s impossible to hinder us have a Walden of our own.Our heart need being clarified as Thoreau has said that let your spirit set out to explore.篇三：瓦尔登湖英文读后感

Walden Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862），the author of Walden, was born in Concord, Massachusetts.When he was a child, he always went to the woods and field with his old brother.So he loves the nature very much.In the middle of 19th century, American economies developed so rapidly that most people pursuit the material life and ignore the spiritual life.But Thoreau wants to live a simple life.Also for the Transcendentalist Movement was centered in Concord and Emerson had a great influence on him.All these made Thoreau go to build a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and live alone to close to the nature in 1845.Later, he wrote the famous book, Walden, which mainly talks about his life and thoughts during he lived alone in the woods near Walden Pond.When Walden was published in 1854, it was not well accepted by people.Instead it was regarded as 'wicked and heathenish'.It was published only one time until Thoreau died of disease.But many years later especially in twentieth century, it was gradually known and appreciated by lots of readers all over the world.This is a book which tells in spring Thoreau starts building a cabin in the woods，thinking about life, reading some books, and listening to the sound of nature.In autumn, he cultivates beans, observes Walden Pond.In winter, the Walden Pond freeze, lots of animals accompanies with him.As spring's coming, the Walden and other ponds melt.Every thing in nature is awake and reborn including Thoreau.After two years, Thoreau leaves.Thoreau go to the woods to building a cabin which only costs $28.12, eating simple food and needing little furniture.So one of chapters in his book, “Higher Law', emphasizes more on the spiritual aspect instead of the satisfaction of material.Further more;he urges people to read more classic literature such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and other great writers’ masterpiece.He also writes that though he lives alone in the woods, he is close to nature and makes himself as a part of nature.He lives alone, but sometimes he also talks with his visitors who are honest, sincere, thinkable and loving their life.Thoreau also mentions that the noise in the town and the whistle of train disturb the quite life of the town.However, in the woods life is quite.When he lives in the woods, he can listen to animals' sounds such as bird's singing, owl’s hooting, cockerel’s crowing etc.He lives with animals friendly.He also describes the Walden Pond.The water, blue and green, clear and pure, freezes in winter and melts in spring.When I was reading Walden, I felt that I was listening to a wise man’s talking.The words and phrases about the nature especially the Walden Pond are beautiful and fascinating.The sentences are full of wisdom and philosophy.Reading this book reminds me of those people who work hard to earn money, waste lots of money to buy luxury and expensive things, waste time to entertain themselves.In my point of view, they may easily lose themselves, and though their bodies are full, their minds are hungry.The real life is to make every complicate thing to be simple and enrich our heart and soul.In a word, just simplicity、simplicity and simplicity!

One of Thoreau's thoughts about solitude attracts me deeply for I’m the person who likes to be alone.There are some reasons for why I like to be alone: Firstly I think that living with others is easy going to have a conflict whatever you are best friends.Secondly just as Thoreau saying ‘a man thinking or working always alone and let him be where he will’。I always spent most of time to study, and I like to make myself busy all the time, so I have little time to stay with others.In addition to, what I'm thinking and interested in is quite different from others.I like studying at library and reading books but don't like pursuit fashionable and new trend things for it makes me feel tired and bored.So I always live alone and people who around me think I must be lonely.Actually it's not true.They don't understand me at all.When I'm studying, learning or reading, I don't think other things, just immersing in the ocean of knowledge.My heart is quite calm.And if learn new knowledge I got a feeling of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment.So I was so surprised that what Thoreau said was exactly same to what I thought.I was so glad to find a person who has the same idea with me.When Thoreau lived alone in the woods, people did not understand him, even Emerson thought what he did was wrong.And now, people who around me think my life is not good.But I think Thoreau’s life was successful, meaningful and happy, so do I.Because I think that the success and happiness of life all come from exactly value.Everyone deeply desires of themselves life.When you know what the value of yourself is, meanwhile you can enjoy your life according to the value every time.You will find that everyday you have full of energy and enthusiasm to do anything, hear the sure sound from your heart, and often feel intense achievement, the most important is that your heart is peace and calm.Last but not least, I envy Thoreau so much for he lives in such a beautiful and comfortable nature environment.He can breathe the fresh air, live with wild animal friendly;appreciate the scenery of Walden Pond etc.While in modern society, people pursuit their own interests to hunt and kill animals, cut down trees and pollute the rivers and so on.As a result, the number of wildlife is decreasing, the area of lake is shrinking, and the water is not pure any more.The environment problems such as globe warming, climate change and air and water pollution have been becoming increasingly serious.Reading this book makes me be aware of protecting the environment to realize the harmony between human and nature.Although I may not understand Thoreau's thoughts completely, I’m really benefited from reading the book, Walden.

第四篇：瓦尔登湖英文读后感

瓦尔登湖英文读后感

Walden is a masterpiece written by Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862），who was born in Concord, Massachusetts.The age he lived had witnessed the flourish of capitalism as well as the prosperity of industrialization and urbanization.During the 19th century, the American economy developed at so fast rate that most people were bound up in pursuing the material satisfaction , while ingored the spiritual life to a great extent.But Thoreau was quite different from other people, he disdained the modern civilization and attached more importance to the spirit than the material.He thought many people of his time lived in a non-human-like modern society and many modern appliances, such as trains and telegraphs, had done harm to people's harmonious life peace and also broken the relationship between human and nature.In order to prove that without the modern instruments , people can also live a happy life, in 1845, he moved into a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and live there alone for two years to get close to the nature.Walden, is the famous book mainly talks about his life and thoughts during those days living in the woods.Thoreau was so happy with the life living near the lake of Walden that he felt it a sweet grace to have the nature' accompany and even the sounds of rain and the sights around his house were full of sincere friendship.In his eyes, the nature was an intimate friend of him and all things in the nature were lively and vivacious.And all kinds of animals in the wood, such as field mouses, robins and wild rabbits were amicably treated and regarded as his adorable companions.He even thought that plants were also had the right to live equal with human beings.Just because of this, he even blamed himself for hitting chestnut trees with stones.From many words or sentences, we can easily feel Thoreau's deep love and care towards nature.Besides, Thoreau was a pioneering nature lover, who called on people to stop destorying nature but protect it by setting himself an example to others.The consciousness of the environmental protection is becoming more and more important in our modern society, while the whole world is trapped in some serious ecological crisises resulting from hunting and killing animals, cutting down trees and polluting the rivers for pursuit of human beings' own interests.We all have the common sense that the number of wildlife is decreasing, the area of lake is shrinking, and the water is not clear any more.What's worse, environment problems such as globe warming, climate change and air and water pollution are deteriorating during the commercial process.So it's high time that we should realize we never be the dominator of the whole world conquring nature, but should spare no efforts to improve the environment right away.That is, we should comply with the natural laws, make reasonable utilization of natural resources and keep the harmonious development between the society and the environment.Only in this way will we has an opportunity to embrace a bright future and achieve a sustainable society.In the book, Walden, Thoreau not only advocated the protection of nature, but also encourage people to comprehend and return to nature.He told us using his own experience that by living a simple life close to nature, we human beings will find out the true value of life and significance of existence.After reading the book, what impressed me most is the description of the fascinating scenery around the Walden pound, especially these sentences: “A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.It is earth's eye;looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows”.To Thoreau, the Walden lake is like a charming and melting girl , who has slender eyelashes and likes to dress herself in different beautiful clothes with the changes of different seasons.Every morning after getting up, Thoreau would have a bath in the Walden lake to start a new day.After that, he used to wander around the pond and refresh himself with the fresh air.In summer days , he cultivated a piece of land and growed beans, blackberries, johnsworts and the like.The depiction of his leisure rurality spontaneously reminds me of Tao Yuanming, the famous Chinese poet, who lived in the Jin Dynasty and made his life meaningful by returning to the nature and perfecting himself.If Thoreau and Tao Yuanming lived in the same period and place, they would probably become best friends.From the book, we know that during the years when Thoreau lived near the Walden, he did not completely isolate himself from the outside world.Sometimes he went to the town and did odd jobs and would receive visitors and friends in his cabin at times.As I mention before, the intention for his living in the woods was that he wanted to teach people how to live a simple life, achieve enjoyment from the nature, free oneself from the strained daily life and what is more important is to reevaluate the value of social life.Thoreau's though of enjoying a simple life has a more realistic significance and have become a valuable spiritual wealth in our modern society.With the development of the material civilization, people's desires are swelling limitlessly and many people are busy with the pursuit of wealth and luxurious life by any means, including at the expense of nature.However, even in the society materially affluent and technologically advanced , people are not be more happier than those people who lived centuries ago, but even feel less satisfactory and complaint more about their present life as a result of having unbounded desires of getting more and better.Therefore, many people who possess a lat have become slaves of machine, working more but do not have the ability to enjoy what they have.In the book Walden, Thoreau had realize this problem several hundreds ago.Thus, he set his mind to give a enlightenment to awake people and encourage them to live a simple life.His thoughts have great similarity with the belief of our Chinese humanism, that is, the meaning of life lies in the sane and healthy enjoyment of a simple life.In fact, Thoreau and his teacher and friend Emerson praised highly on Confucianism and both them benefited a lot from it.I am very happy to see the interlinked place between Chinese culture and western culture.Reading this book is like having a tranquil steam flow through my heart, washing the dust in my mind.It teaches me how to keep a pure spirit in the complex society, set proper goals for my life as well as enjoy the endows of nature.In short, I feel it quite worthwhile to read the book Walden.I sincerely hope more and more people would like to read this book and receive benefits from it.

第五篇：瓦尔登湖读后感英文

福州大学外国语学院08级

Walden

Walden is a masterpiece written by Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862), who was born in Concord, Massachusetts.The age he lived had witnessed the flourish of capitalism as well as theprosperity of industrialization and urbanization.During the 19th century, the American economy developed at so fast rate thatmost people were bound up in pursuing the material satisfaction , while ingored the spiritual life to a great extent.But Thoreau was quite different from other people, he disdained the modern civilization and attachedmore importance to the spirit than the material.He thought many people of his time lived in a non-human-like modern society and many modern appliances, such as trains and telegraphs, had done harm to people's harmonious life peace and also broken the relationship between human and nature.In order to prove that without the modern instruments , people can also live a happy life, in 1845, he moved into a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and live there alone for two years to get close to the nature.Walden, is the famous book mainly talks about his life and thoughts during those days living in the woods.Thoreau was so happy with the life living near the lake of Walden that he felt it a sweet grace to have the nature' accompany and even the sounds of rain and the sights around his house were full of sincere friendship.In his eyes, the nature was an intimate friend of him and all things in the nature were lively and vivacious.And all kinds of animals in the wood, such as field mouses, robins and wild rabbits were amicably treated and regarded as his adorable companions.He even thought that plants were also had the right to live equal with human beings.Just because of this, he even blamed himself for hitting chestnut trees with stones.From many words or sentences, we can easily feel Thoreau's deep love and care towards nature.Besides, Thoreau was a pioneering nature lover, who called on people to stop destorying nature but protect it by setting himselfan example to others.The consciousness of the environmental protection is becoming more and more important in our modern society, while the whole world is trapped in some serious ecological crisises resulting from hunting and killing animals, cutting down trees and polluting the rivers for pursuit of human beings' own interests.Weall have the common sense that the number of wildlife is decreasing, the area of lake is shrinking, and the water is not clear any more.What's worse,1

environment problems such as globe warming, climate change and air and water pollution are deteriorating during the commercial process.So it's high time that we should realize we never be the dominator of the whole world conquring nature, but should spare no efforts to improve the environment right away.That is, we should comply with the natural laws, make reasonable utilization of natural resources and keep the harmonious development between the society and the environment.Only in this way will we has an opportunity to embrace a bright future and achieve a sustainable society.In the book, Walden, Thoreau not only advocated the protection of nature, but also encourage people to comprehend and return to nature.He told us using his own experience that by living a simple life close to nature, we human beings will find out the true value of life and significance of existence.After reading the book, what impressed me most is the description of the fascinating scenery around the Walden pound, especially these sentences: “A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.It is earth's eye;looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows”.To Thoreau, the Walden lake is like a charming and melting girl , who has slender eyelashes and likes to dress herself in different beautiful clothes with the changes of different seasons.Every morning after getting up, Thoreau would have a bath in the Walden lake to start a new day.After that, he used to wander around the pond and refresh himself with the fresh air.In summer days , he cultivated a piece of land and growed beans, blackberries, johnsworts and the like.The depiction of his leisure rurality spontaneously reminds me of Tao Yuanming, the famous Chinese poet, who lived in the Jin Dynasty and made his life meaningful byreturning to the nature and perfecting himself.If Thoreau and Tao Yuanming lived in the same period and place, they would probably become best friends.From the book, we know that during the years when Thoreau lived near the Walden, he did not completely isolate himself from the outside world.Sometimes he went to the town and did odd jobs and would receive visitors and friends in his cabin at times.As I mention before, the intention for his living in the woods was that he wanted to teach people how to live a simple life, achieve enjoyment from the nature, free oneself from the strained daily life and what is more important is to reevaluate2

the value of social life.Thoreau's though of enjoying a simple life has a more realistic significance and have become a valuable spiritual wealth in our modern society.With the development of the material civilization, people's desires are swelling limitlessly and many people are busy with the pursuit of wealth and luxurious life by any means, including at the expense of nature.However, even in the society materially affluent and technologically advanced , people are not be more happier than those people who lived centuries ago, but even feel less satisfactory and complaint more about their present life as a result of having unbounded desires of getting more and better.Therefore, many people who possess a lat have become slaves of machine, working more but do not have the ability to enjoy what they have.In the book Walden, Thoreau had realize this problem several hundreds ago.Thus, he set his mind to give a enlightenment to awake people and encourage them to live a simple life.His thoughts have great similaritywith the belief of our Chinese humanism, that is, the meaning of life lies in the sane and healthy enjoyment of a simple life.In fact, Thoreau and his teacher and friend Emerson praised highly on Confucianism and both them benefited a lot from it.I am very happy to see the interlinked place between Chinese culture and western culture.Reading this book is like having a tranquil steam flow through my heart, washing the dust in my mind.It teaches me how to keep a pure spirit in the complex society, set proper goals for my life as well as enjoy the endows of nature.In short, I feel it quite worthwhile to read the book Walden.I sincerely hope more and more people would like to read this book and receive benefits from it.