《瓦尔登湖》读后感——心中的瓦尔登

文/胡英琴

阅读，不仅仅是帮助我们获得知识，获得智慧，更重要的是帮助我们拥有宁静的心态，儒雅的姿态，积极的状态。2019年，我们要 一起 坚持 读好书！龙港幼师读书会第一个读书分享人——胡英琴老师。

“你得成为一个哥伦布，寻找你内心的的新大陆和新世界，开辟海峡，并不是为了贸易往来，而是为了思想融合。”本书作者亨利·大卫·梭罗，美国作家及自然主义者。《瓦尔登湖》是他的代表作，也是美国的经典读物。

个人认为这本书适合想了解大自然而又没办法深入自然的人，喜欢探究生活和内心的人。因为该书有冗长的内心独白和细碎的生活细节的描写。

瓦尔登湖是一个美丽的湖，书中有好多描绘湖的地方。如“九月一日，我发现三两株小枫树的叶子已经红了，离湖不远就在三株岔开的白杨下，一个胡角上，临近这水。啊！它们的颜色诉说着许多的故事。慢慢地，一个又一个星期，每株树德特性都显现出来了，它在光亮如镜的湖面上欣赏自己的倒影。每天清晨，这个画廊经理便取下墙上的旧画，换上一些新的地方画家幅，鲜亮而和谐的色彩多人眼目。”将大自然比喻为画廊经理的表现方式，拟人化地写出湖的美景。

书中的“我”，生活得很满足，他没有豪宅，也没有亿万财产，但是他过的很充实。几平方米的小木屋，再加一块小土地，就是生活了。每天吃自己亲手做的食物，用最原始的方法，展现食物最真实的味道。喜欢吃什么，就在方寸地里种什么，也不必把杂草都去除，或许能得到意外之喜。待收获季节，收获自己劳动得来的果实，那是一种怎样的体会，有些时候，思考思考人生，和邻居聊聊天，钓钓鱼，看看风景，这种生活是怎样的，有些时候，思考思考人生，和邻居聊聊天、钓钓鱼、看看风景，这种生活是怎样的惬意。

我想，梭罗的这本书只是展示了他自己寻找自我的过程，他交给我们一个方法，关键还要靠我们自己去寻找。也许很多人也向往瓦尔登湖那样的世外桃源般的生活，认为那种生活一定会是美好的。但，这只是一种美好的愿望而已。作者在瓦尔登湖生活了两年，最终离开。并不是瓦尔登湖不美，也不是因为他厌倦，而是他发现，其实所谓的世外桃源只存在于自己的内心。如果你内心贫乏、无法平静，就算是环游世界，对你来说没有什么差异，你永远找不到世外桃源，因为它只会存在你的心中。

我常想起书中路人留下的一句话，“最高贵的心灵，是最能知足自满的”。世界的每个角落都绽放烟火，风景是不缺的，却缺的是一颗能体会美的心。乡下的人向往城市繁华喧嚣的生活，而城市里的人羡慕乡下那平静悠闲的日子。为什么三毛能在撒哈拉沙漠上找到那么多美丽的故事？为什么梭罗能在那么差的物质条件下过着让今人艳羡的诗意生活？

生活不在别处，认真对待生活，主动对生活索取，回过头，此处便是你的瓦尔登

瓦尔登湖英文读后感

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 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 .

瓦尔登湖英语读后感

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.

瓦尔登湖读后感英文

closing the white cover of the book ’walden’， i just quite confused because so many new words that i can’t recognize. with the help of chinese version downloaded from the internet, after i catch the general idea, a burst of cold water pours into my heart, pure and limpid, clarify my shattered mind without any dirt existing. as some said in preface “walden is a book with loneness and solitude and a book with a single person.” when your mind is uneasy, you have no need reading the book. it requires you to come down and to be at leisure.

the book was written in the middle of the 19th century-a period that is a rapid development of capitalism. under such a background, most people would rather pursue benefits as possible as they can and try every means to obtain higher power and money no matter what it would cost. industrial civilization and noisy society was gradually corrupting the nature of the humanity. however, at this situation, a illuminati graduating from harvard university, carried an axe along with his lone single shadow. then away from the city he ran into the uninhabited walden at the edge of the mountain forest and settled down over here. he insisted on his own ways with a yearning for nature as well as set out the trace of the soul. at the land of the so-called walden” drops of god”。 he became unperturbed in space，lonely in thought.

he quietly uploaded the noise in the city.  then he wrote down the solitude by heart. every time when people read his book, they definitely will be shocked. he fell into meditating about the life. it made people’s heart become as clear as the pure water. i stand in awe of him, his life turned out to be such simple and meanwhile glamorous. it is rather than momentary but significant. his spiritual world is colorful even exquisite beyond compare. maybe in the world seldom exist such a sage like him.

throughout thoreau’s short lifetime, he attempted to encourage people to simplify the life and spare the time to go deep into the real life. at the same time, he let them enjoy it. he told people not to be confused with complicated life by his own experiences. in the direction of thoreau, they would not lose a flash of hope or lose their way in life. they should be a rudder of the life thus start on a new journey. he thought that if people were able to set the simple life by universe regulation, it would not arouse many anxieties which disturbed the inner peace of the heart. the so-called tomorrow would not approach in spite of the ending of the time. we regarded a flash of light as darkness. as we were sober, the first light of morning was going to break.

he calls on people live a simple life that is in order to make people experience something new instead of saving money. maybe this is the value of a person. there’s not any pretence, only be surrounded with solitude and quietness.

at the shore of walden, the author exactly chased for depth, rather, it was pursuing the depth. in a lonely state of mind, he thought about the life and explored the real meaning. solitude inspired his profound thought. “do not give me love, money or reputation, please give me the truth.” this was what he was calling in his heart.

though we can’t live a life in woods around the mountain and walden has disappeared forever, it’s impossible to hinder us have a walden of our own. our heart need being clarified as thoreau has said that let your spirit set out to explore.