淡泊以明志，宁静以致远。
——题记
轻叩一本名着，细细地与梭罗促膝谈心;翻开一卷墨香，轻轻地聆听瓦尔登湖弹奏的梵歌。
回归自然的纯洁，回归淡泊的境界。我，作为一名浮躁的都市人，有幸拜读这由贵州人民出版社出版的《瓦尔登湖》，为我除去那躁动的灰尘，披上那自然的清新。
白居易曾说：“水能性淡为吾友，竹能心虚即我师。”这恰似这坐落在康科德的小木屋，梭罗就是在这里进行了两年两个月零两天的独居生活。他记录从春到冬的这一轮的风景，他的超验主义实践建立了一种与现代物质生活日益丰富对立的简朴方式，还原生活的原始状态。
真的很难想象，梭罗是如何生活下去，他将自己放在一个杳无人烟的地方，他拥有的只有一个简陋的小木屋，一张小小的床，一张普通的书桌和一些零落的稿纸，仅仅只有简单的陈设，仅仅只是他执着的信念，仅仅凭借着人对自然的欲望和热爱，他，完成了这伟大的实践，完成了这对自然的追求，完成了这本杰作，这不得不让后人称他为“自然随笔的创始者”。
淡泊是人生的一种至高的境界。当时正处于工业时代，物质的优越并没有让梭罗迷失，随波逐流，他曾在《经济》中写到：
“……人最美好的部分，不久也会被梨入土壤，化作粪肥……”
将所谓的经济与自然对立，当人们奢侈地享受生活时，却忘记这浮华世界背后的陷阱，难道就不怕醒来之后会是一场噩梦?似乎从原始时代开始，那些可以被称得上是“智慧”的东西早已被这社会的发展所抛弃，人们对于自然只剩下贪婪，总是渴望获得什么，有时像是一个无底深渊，永无止境。
梭罗总爱引用，记忆中影响最深的就是罗利的英译对句：
“既然人人乐道肉身本具顽石性，慈善心肠何能不将烦恼痛苦忍。”
带着讽刺去批判着人类的盲目，带着幽默去痛斥人类的无为。对于人，他的信仰除了所谓的上帝就是那些所谓的统治阶级，这对生活在基层的人民而言，生来位卑，他们活着就像一部机器，为了不让自己在劳动市场上贬值，抛弃了气概，抛弃了自尊。是的，他们的劳动力升值了，可悲哀的是他们的智慧却在贬值，难道这就是“安逸者”?这正如梭罗所言：“你刚走出了失望之城，又走进绝望之乡。”
上帝没有赋予任何人任何权力，自然自有它的公道。你，生来未带一草一木，死后又不带走一缕一线。奴隶的生涯终究是由失望垒成的城堡，有的甚至是由绝望筑成的荒墓，与其这样，为何不摒弃这些浮躁，还灵魂一份通透，回归自然的宁静呢?设想一下，当你面对这博大的自然，它给予你的是新鲜的空气，甜美的果实，突然间，你是否感觉自己成为了天真浪漫的孩童，不知疲惫地奔逐在它的怀抱里。
这些如水晶般的思想，梭罗还记录了很多很多，终点就是起点，四季的轮回正是生命的苏醒沉睡，这些文字就像是一杯温水，让人沉浸，心灵正被一点一点洗涤，灵魂正被一点一点安静。
淡泊是智者的动力，像是一把折扇，送来徐徐清风，拂去一片焦虑;又像是一面镜子，照清娇容的面貌，看清人性的本质;还像是一首诗词，念时如痴如醉，回味时百感交集。
月下共饮，湖边共赏。邀君在这片湖水前共冥，邀君在这份淡泊中共寻那份静谧!
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.
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 .