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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 capital ism 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 i n 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.