Walden_读后感.doc

WaldenHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was an American writer and thinker, and graduated from Harvard University. He made friends with Emerson when he was a student, and he learned a lot from him. At the same time he stared writing by the influence of Emerson. He wrote many books and papers among his life, and the most impressed and famous one is On Civil Disobedience which was published in 1848. Later, in 1854，Walden was published, but it was not as impressed as On Civil Disobedience. But as time went by, it was accepted by more and more people. His life is up and down. Though he just stayed in the jail for a day he thought a lot about the society and the people, and he wrote the famous Paper: Resistance to Civil Government. When I got the book, I first saw the three words，Lonely , Solitude , Wisdom in the cover . Thoreau lived in Walden for almost a half and two years. So Walden records his life and thoughts lived in Walden alone in the woods by the Walden Pond. In this book he wrote these parts: Economy, Where I lived, and What I lived for, Reading, Sounds, Solitude, Visitor, the Village, and the Pond in winter,. In the economy part he wrote what he did and thought about his money by the way describing what he saw and experience to explain it. “One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels” “all change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant” When a new generation become the main support of the society, they will create many new things and new ideas to strengthen their status and power ,and control the main thought of the public. Even a small change will make a big difference of the world. When the young and new generation take some new measures to support themselves, they do change the next generation. So the new generation should take care of what they do, and think twice before making great changes. Where I lived, and What I lived for. “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” In this part I got the information that we must keep a clear mind and do no matter what we do by heart. Every morning we wake up, it is a new day, at this time we should enjoy the fresh air, and have the feeling of turning over a new loaf. When we have the feeling and wake everyday all by our strong will, we will feel easy and relaxed the whole day. So we would not call the morning “the painful morning” anymore. Reading.” Our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low, worthy only of pygmies and manikins” David Thoreau thought that what we read now only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class-books, and when left school, we read Little Reading and story books. Now these kinds of books make us boring and narrow of other fields. Besides, what we are learning at school, we should also read a large rang of books, and open our eyes to another world we have never seen by following the author idea and feet. Only in this way can we call what we are doing is reading.Sounds . “What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hand and pray to Jupiter. I see these men every day go about their business with more or less courage and content, doing more even than they suspect, and perchance better employed than they could have consciously devised.” “Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.” Commerce does bring us many benefits and make our life convenient, makes many impossible become possible. Nowadays, most of us only consider the profit of the commerce but ignore the damage. The author often see the train come and go between the countryside and cities, it bring the villagers what they need and take the sources of the village such as woods, coal, mineral, and some other limited sources. Seeing it, we must consider the commerce by two sides, and make the sources fully use. At the same time, we must consider the sustainable development, and make our nature balance. Solitude. :Yet I experiences sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy yet such a storm but it was Aeolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.” Living in the nature you can feel solitude, but the most you feel about living in it is the peace of your heart sound of nature. We live in big cities, most of us even do not know what our neighbors are, how poor we are. We will have the feeling that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. But when we set ourselves in the nature we can feel the sweet and friendly of the nature, and think about our life clearly. Enjoy the solitude, you can see and feel more about the nature and your real life. Visitors. Referred to this standard, speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.” Sometimes we may gather together to discuss something we are interested in or something that is important, we may have different opinions, and the best way to solve it is not shout to support your idea but express it patiently. In this way we will have a good and efficient meeting. The Village. “I am convinced, that if all men were to live simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown.” The village life is simple and people all are simple, so their environment is also peace, it set an example for us, live simple, you will be happier. In a ward , about the Walden, all I can feel now is make my heart peace and think more about my life, so that I will live happy and clear-headed. Every man is the lord of a realm besides which the earthly empire of the Czar is but petty state, a humm