book review

Walden is а record of Thereau's two-year life beside the lake Walden.It recorded Thereau's desire, conflicts and his self-adjustment during thetime.Thereau demonstrated how the life would bewithout technique and the excessive material desire.He pictured a imaginary life to us in which we havenothing but necessities, chasing nothing but our trueneeds and spiritual wealth. He called for а economiclifestyle and the harmony between nature and ushumanity. The book was published in the mid of 1 9th century, during the second industrial revolution.In that era, with the accelerating development of technique, more power was generated and moregoods were producted. Thus, people's materialdesire surged. And they lost their spiritual pursuitduring their chasing for the superior. Meanwhile,during the expanding, people occupied natural resources and polluted the river unlimitedly, whichwould ultimately threaten human's own life. Waldenis а book against the crisis of Thereau's age, butthese long-lasting issues made the book prevalentand influential nowadays. Confronted with the globalwarming and other hazard environmental concerns,we still need to learn from Thereau's wisdom which is full of foreseeing and philosophy. Fromanother aspect, Walden is а book about solitudeand isolation. Thereau lived on the shore of Waldenalone, just like the youngsters nowadays, living alone and are isolated from the others. Solitudeis sometimes inevitable, and Thereau pointed outsome methods through which we can get through these hard times. For one thing, enjoy the nature.Thus, void would be filled and the loss of emotionwould be compensated. Secondly, enjoy yourself.Medicating, that was what Thereau had done whenthere's nothing but nature and solitude. It wouldheighten your spirituality and your soul would be liberated from your own pain. You will see somethingbigger. It feels like a feather floating in the sky, lightand graceful. Nowadays many youngster indulgein the virtual world of the Internet to release theirsolitude. However, we should not let the virtual world replaced our own spiritual world. On the onehand, spiritual world is original. It can enable Usto live our own life. What's more, the virtual worldoccupied our imagination to exist. But we shall notbe restrained by it. Infinity, that is what spirits means.Besides, Walden was a book full of emotions and kinks. Thereau was а master of metaphor.He had аgorgeous expression, solely using the most conciseand natural words. You will immerse in the slient andsimple world that Thereau created while reading. Andthat will refresh yourself and assist you to gather theunderlying power of the universe to triumph over theterror inspired by your own self. The nature nourishedus humanity and our thinkings and emotions are closely related to the nature. Thereau had found thishidden connection, and he led us to it. To be frank,Walden is not a easy reading book. It's a kind of bookthat would be placed on the top of the shelf. Similarto Meditations written by the Imperator Caesar, concepts are scattered over the book. But the pocess