Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition - introduced by noted American writer John Updike - celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden - as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/personal/hehh/swsb/sp/03.htm 梭罗和他的湖 一 想为一本寂寞的书打破一点寂寞,此愿巳久,这本书就是梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》。 这本书在一八五四年出世时是寂寞的,它不仅没有引起大众的注意,甚至连一些本来应该亲近它的人也不理解,对...
评分10.23至11.9,每天用睡前的时间重读完了。这本书的对我而言已经非常亲切,特别是最开始读的那章,隔着书都能听到作者的坚定反问,“两个住得最远的居民之间离得有多远?那颗星的直径我们的仪器都测不出来,我为什么会感到孤独?”由此也可见,梭罗也是很喜欢争辩的,他不是隐士...
评分“即使它描绘的境界让你沮丧,你也应对待它的纯灼,如同仰视黑夜里的繁星。” 欢迎添加。 1) 我觉得一个人若生活得诚实,他一定是生活在一个遥远的地方了。(P2) 2) 我们天性中最优美的品格,好比果实上的粉霜一样,是只能轻手轻脚,才得保全的。然而,人与人之间就是没有能...
评分立秋前后,我读了这本书。很薄,只有三百多页,断续看了三天,把其他正在读的书都停下了,很有点迫不及待的味道。 今年夏天,北京几乎就没怎么热过。立秋这几天,一直在下雨,迫使人取消某些户外活动。 昨晚我去五道口,正是雨最大的时候,一群人躲在易初莲花的...
评分10.23至11.9,每天用睡前的时间重读完了。这本书的对我而言已经非常亲切,特别是最开始读的那章,隔着书都能听到作者的坚定反问,“两个住得最远的居民之间离得有多远?那颗星的直径我们的仪器都测不出来,我为什么会感到孤独?”由此也可见,梭罗也是很喜欢争辩的,他不是隐士...
这本书的哲学思辨部分,着实让我经历了一场思想上的“大扫除”。它毫不留情地剖析了现代社会中许多被我们习以为常的虚妄和束缚。作者的观点尖锐而独到,他毫不退让地挑战了社会的主流价值观,特别是关于财富积累和无谓忙碌的狂热追逐。我常常读到某一句,便不得不停下来,反复咀嚼其背后的深意,甚至会引发一些关于自身生活方式的激烈自我反省。这种带着批判性的内省,并非消极的抱怨,而是一种积极的、寻求更高生活质量的呼唤。他用一种近乎严苛的标准来衡量人生的价值,迫使读者去审视自己真正渴望的是什么,哪些“必需品”实际上是多余的负担。这种由内而外的颠覆感,让人在阅读过程中既感到震撼,又充满了一种挣脱枷锁的兴奋。它提供的不是现成的答案,而是更强有力的提问,推动我们去构建一个更诚实、更自主的内心世界。
评分总而言之,这本书给我留下的最深刻印象,是一种关于“选择的勇气”的教材。它不仅仅是关于一个人如何隐居山林的故事,更是关于如何有意识地选择自己的人生剧本。作者清晰地展示了,当一个人剥离掉社会赋予的层层外衣后,生活可以变得多么的简单,以及这种简单如何带来精神上的极大富足。阅读过程更像是一次精神上的“断舍离”训练,它挑战了我们对“成功”和“幸福”的固有定义。我尤其欣赏作者在记录中的那种毫不妥协的诚实,他没有美化艰辛,但却从中提炼出了深刻的满足感。这本书的价值不在于让你模仿他的生活方式,而在于它提供了一个强有力的参照系,让你有勇气去质疑自己日常决策背后的驱动力,并最终为自己的人生选择负起全部责任。它是一剂清醒剂,让灵魂从麻木中苏醒过来,重新审视生活布局的合理性。
评分作者的语言风格,用一个词来形容,是“不加修饰的力度”。他遣词造句并非追求华丽的辞藻堆砌,而是力求简洁、精准,直击事物的核心本质。他的文字具有一种近乎古老的庄重感,仿佛他所描绘的场景和思考的议题,都具有永恒的价值。在描述个人感受时,情感的流露是克制而有节制的,但正是这种克制,使得情感的力量更加深沉有力,没有一丝矫揉造作的痕迹。你从中感受到的,是一种面对巨大自然和自身局限时,人性的坚韧与脆弱并存的真实状态。这种朴素而有力的表达方式,使得书中关于自立和简朴生活的理念,听起来更像是一条经过时间考验的智慧箴言,而不是空洞的理论说教。它像一块未经雕琢的璞玉,粗粝中透着无法掩盖的光芒。
评分行文的节奏感和叙事方式,与我以往接触的大多数书籍截然不同,它更像是一种沉思的流动,而非线性的故事。有时,作者会花费大量篇幅去详细描述一个简单的动作,比如生火或者搭建庇护所的每一步细节,这种详尽得近乎冗余的描述,非但没有让人感到拖沓,反而营造出一种强大的“在场感”。仿佛时间被拉长了,每一分钟的劳作都被赋予了神圣的意义。这种对过程的尊重,与我们习惯于追求即时满足的现代心态形成了强烈的对比。阅读体验是渐进的、需要耐心的,但回报是丰厚的——它教会我们如何真正地“慢下来”,去体会“存在”本身所蕴含的重量和厚度。这种节奏的切换,成功地将读者的心绪从外界的纷扰中剥离出来,强行植入到那个更加原始、更具本质性的时间维度中去。
评分这本书的文字充满了对自然界细致入微的观察,每一次翻页都像是一次全新的感官体验。作者似乎拥有一种与万物对话的魔力,他笔下的每一棵树、每一条河流、甚至每一只昆虫,都拥有了鲜明的个性和鲜活的生命力。我特别欣赏他那种近乎偏执的精确性,无论是对日出光影的描摹,还是对季节更替的细腻捕捉,都展现了他对所处环境的深度融入。那种在喧嚣尘世之外,独自面对广袤天地的坦然与宁静,极具感染力。读着读着,我仿佛也闻到了空气中泥土和湿润青草的气息,听到了风吹过树梢发出的沙沙声。这不只是一本简单的记录,它更像是一份献给自然的颂歌,每一个段落都蕴含着对生命本源的深刻探寻。它提醒着我们,在匆忙的生活中,我们错过了多少值得驻足欣赏的微小奇迹。这种对细节的执着,构建了一个极其真实且迷人的平行世界,让人忍不住想放下手中的一切,去寻找属于自己的那片宁静之地。
评分自从听说了他娘亲每周来帮忙洗衣服,我的心情就更复杂了。
评分The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation
评分所谓必需品,对人类来说也不过食物、住宅、衣服、燃料
评分第一次开启Kindle上的shared highlight功能,书里好些精彩段落都有几百个人不约而同的划线,于是一本描写独自生活的书,读的时候也不觉得孤独了。
评分我追求的人生境界
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