With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.
The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments...
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.
The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. ... All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. (查看原文)
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
2021-01-13 16:42
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.引自第358页
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived.
2020-12-29 16:16
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived. 引自第182页
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.
2020-12-26 15:46
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. 引自第138页
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. If the civilized man’s pursuits are no worthier than the savage’s, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?
2020-12-26 15:34
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. If the civilized man’s pursuits are no worthier than the savage’s, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former? 引自第137页
The lesson he had taught himself, and which he tried to teach others, was summed up in the one word "Simplify". That meant: simplify the outward circumstances of your life; simplify your needs and your ambitions; learn to delight in the simple pleasures which the world of Nature affords. It meant also: scorn public opinion; refuse to accept the common definitions of success; refuse to be moved ...
2012-02-05 22:58
The lesson he had taught himself, and which he tried to teach others, was summed up in the one word "Simplify". That meant: simplify the outward circumstances of your life; simplify your needs and your ambitions; learn to delight in the simple pleasures which the world of Nature affords. It meant also: scorn public opinion; refuse to accept the common definitions of success; refuse to be moved by the judgement of others. And unlike most who advocate such attitudes, he put them into practice.引自第1页
In most books, the I ,or first person, is omitted, in this it will be retained；that, in respect to egotism ,is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
2013-07-16 15:50
In most books, the I ,or first person, is omitted, in this it will be retained；that, in respect to egotism ,is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.引自 economy
They lived in an age of increasingly complexity and great hope;we in an age of still greater complexity and growing despair. 翻译：他们生活在一个日益复杂和充满希望的年代，我们生活在一个更加复杂却日益绝望的年代。
2012-02-05 23:05
They lived in an age of increasingly complexity and great hope;we in an age of still greater complexity and growing despair.引自第2页
I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized again. “sojourner”，寄居者，暂住者。徐迟译为“过客”，后来的译者基本也相继沿用。过客显然更具诗意韵味。如此这般，我们栖居在文明世界中，生活、感受。 ...for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. What is exactly "living sincerely"? Is it a perfect mode of life that we all should pursu...
2019-02-04 12:31
I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized again.引自 Economy
...for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.引自 Economy
What is exactly "living sincerely"? Is it a perfect mode of life that we all should pursue? When we are living in a distant land, far from any kindred, what will we be like? I study in a university far from home. But sometimes I found myself missing my hometown more than everywhere. Was I sincere out there? Or maybe I was just homesick?
I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.引自 Economy
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
2021-01-13 16:42
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.引自第358页
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived.
2020-12-29 16:16
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived. 引自第182页
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.
2020-12-26 15:46
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. 引自第138页
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. If the civilized man’s pursuits are no worthier than the savage’s, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?
2020-12-26 15:34
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. If the civilized man’s pursuits are no worthier than the savage’s, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former? 引自第137页
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
0 有用 [已注销] 2010-09-13
http://www.archive.org/details/walden_librivox, http://www.archive.org/details/civil_disobedience_librivox.
0 有用 风吹草低牛小羊 2020-10-23
original, but not concisely written.
0 有用 威士忌味小曲奇 2013-10-08
solitude with conscious mind 值得研究的课题
0 有用 csyg 2021-03-05
早就想读了
0 有用 frogman 2010-09-16
这本书很全，但字有点小
0 有用 csyg 2021-03-05
早就想读了
0 有用 风吹草低牛小羊 2020-10-23
original, but not concisely written.
0 有用 闻三多 2016-09-04
1 精神洗礼 2 Thoreau文笔的美和磅礴
0 有用 捡石头的村童 2014-05-28
想起了家乡的恒山草堂； 美国的陶渊明； 挥一挥衣袖，逃离城市的冲动。
0 有用 Emanuelle 2014-04-17
walden 不错哦，直到他开始琐碎的算账