A Comparison of H. D. Thoreau’s View of Nature and Traditional Chinese Perspectives on Human and Nat.doc
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A Comparison of H. D. Thoreau’s View of Nature and Traditional Chinese Perspectives on Human and Nat
A Comparison of H. D. Thoreau?s View of Nature and Traditional Chinese Perspectives on Human and Nat
Abstract: This paper involves several typical scholars in Chinese history of literature, and it emphasizes the analysis of their typical works, which are compared with Thoreau?s view of nature again and again. In spite of their differences and similarities, beauty and cherishment are the same; and there is a hope that we could grip the nature of these authors and their works after these analyses.
Key words: H. D. Thoreau;Nature;Scholar
中图分类号:G642 文献标识码: A文章编号:1672-1578(2009)11-0032-02
1 Introduction
Chinese scholars’ perspectives on human and nature were well known for a long time. To our surprise, in the 19th century H. D. Thoreau, was fascinating, because his view of nature. Much more surprisingly, there are many similarities between them, though they have separate distinctions.In their works, nature was so much beautiful. And it?s impossible for us to stand aloof with it.
2 The similarities
In spite of the difference of time and space, there is sympathy between Chinese scholars and Thoreau.
Declaring for “letting things take their own course”, Laozi acclaimed that: “Human obeys the earth, the earth obeys the sky, the sky obeys Taoism, and Taoism follows nature.” (郭预衡,1998:212) He followed nature but not fame and gain, and desired greatly to return to simplicity and truth. Being in the great nature, he tried to cultivate his moral character and mould his temperament; because of the temperament and the environment, Thoreau tended to go and live in seclusion. To describe his inclination, he wrote in his diary that: “The really noble and deep disposition is not to show-off, just like that the king or the conqueror is not the first in the march.” (朱子仪,2005:23-24) The primitive wildness was his long-cherished wish, and he diligently strived after the independently and poetic wilds. Even on each travel in his very life, he sought for the wilder wil
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