瓦尔登湖英读后感.doc

瓦尔登湖英文 HYPERLINK /lizhi/duhougan.html \t _blank 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 peoples 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 Thoreaus deep love and care towards nature. 　　Besides, Thoreau was a pioneering nature lover, who called