I have whatched a movie whose name is The legend of 1900,maybe you’ll ask me what is the connection between the movie and the work of Walden,but after you read the actor's lines

You will find the same character in the deep.But it just in my mind!maybe it is a little bit long what I have search on the internet.maybe it a litlle bit long!

“All that city. You just couldn’t see the end to it. The end? Please? You please just show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway. And I was grand too, in my overcoat. I cut quite a figure. And I was getting off. Guaranteed. There was no problem. It wasn’t what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn’t see. You understand that? What I didn’t see. In all that sprawling city there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end. The end of the world...

Take a piano. The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are eighty-eight of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You are infinite. And on these keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by.

You get me up on that gangway and you’re rolling out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end, and that’s the truth, Max. That they never end. That keyboard is infinite. And if that keyboard is infinite, then on that

keyboard there is no music you can play. You’re sitting on the wrong bench. That’s God’s piano.

Christ! Did, did you see the streets? Just the streets… There were thousands of them! And how do you do it down there? How do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die...

All that world is weighing down on me, you don’t even know where it comes to an end, and aren’t you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? The enormity of living it? I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. .

Land? Land is a ship too big for me. It’s a woman too beautiful; it’s a voyage too long, a perfume too strong. It’s a music I don’t know how to make. I could never get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, I don’t exist for anyone. You’re an exception, Max, you’re the only one who knows I’m here. You’re a minority, and you better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend, but I’m not getting off.”

Thoreau in the book describes in detail a piece in the walden lake regeneration through the forest during the two years and two months of life, and many of his thinking. Walden pond is located in concord, of eastern Massachusetts, not far from the shuttle Laurence family. Thoreau called the experience simple seclusion of a try. There is a serene air of the mother nature, without environmental pollution from industrial society. Read it, the reader will 1

naturally feel the purity of mind, the sublimation of the spirit. As all progress, Thoreau wrote down the relationship between human with nature, and people in society and people hope to improve the natural, the relationship between people in society and people hope to improve the self mental habits, I am afraid, he didn't realize what you're doing. To defend yourself for a while, filled with joy, freedom, bold and unrestrained, created a unique omelet, let people in hunger day keep this brook to nutrition

Although, the film of The Legend of 1900 tell us the story happened on a ship.But for me,the two art work boyh have a same deep meaning that is personal identity and the lack of personal presence. Today's most people looking forward just substance and the lack of

spiritral things.In my part,Thoreau was a lonely guy at that times.Everyone can image,if you in aworld that everybady that arround you is got crazy,but you are the clear sobar,you want to cray …and it’s no use!

I hold the view of every body should always think about this questions,who I am?why I am here?and how to deal with my life?Sometimes,we not very sure about ourself.The world is too large to find a way to go.We should to find somewhere as our spiritual palace to let our mind have a rest and think out a way to go.Maybe Throreu’S cabin is one of a good choice.

I usaully contemplate about Chinese traditional

cultureof independent personality in Taoism. Laotse's governance by no-action and the balance of Yin and Yang!it not about manage all over the country,just for a single

personal.Just as our environment,because of person’s behaviour as a result in a series of environmental problems.

All in all,I really don’t know who I am that in the big world,and even don’t know what

should I do. Maybe a a quiet place that without too many people and too many substance will help me try to think.If I have the answer,I’ll be happay with come to this world.

2012级本四班

周显玲

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第二篇：瓦尔登湖 读书笔记

我愿作那一汪宁静的水

——《瓦尔登湖》读书笔记

《瓦尔登湖》是美国作家大卫.梭罗不朽名作，被称为美国人的心灵天堂。一个人，一把斧头，一间小木屋，两年时间里，渔猎,耕耘,沉思,写作，简朴而又充满了生活的情趣，只求在山水间寻找真正的人生意义和简单生活的乐趣，不被当时社会大众普遍流行的拜金主义思想以及享乐主义思想所玷污。

该书的中文译者徐迟先生在《序》中说：“《瓦尔登湖》是一本静静的书,一本寂寞的书,一本孤独的书,是一本寂寞、恬静、智慧的书。

羁鸟恋旧林，池鱼思故渊，我们离开自然太久了，我们想要的东西太多了，我们心里充满了烦躁，被花花绿绿的财富所驱使，被黑洞般的欲望所填满。再看看我们原本的地球现在什么样：当下雾霾在中国大部分地区肆虐，无数钢铁森林拔地而起，无数人却在流离失所，而至今还有人在如原始时期一般的在饥寒中不能入眠。。。。。。我们是需要宁静的，我们是需要停下来好好想想以后怎么走的。心灵安逸,岁月静美.而对于人类赖以生存的自然,我们仿佛又在寻找一个有关原始命题的答案,如果找到了答案,也许就能深悟生命的本义

与山水诗人陶渊明的“寓形宇内复几时？曷不委心任去留？胡为乎遑遑欲何之？富贵非吾愿，帝乡不可期。怀良辰以孤往，或植杖而耘耔。登东皋以舒啸，临清流而赋诗。聊乘化以归尽，乐夫天命复奚疑！”不同，梭罗独处而又不避世《瓦尔登湖》离世而不弃世,孤独却不悲愤,它充满了诗意的恬静、生命的智慧以及恰到好处的寂寥.“在下一个夏季里,我不需要那么多的苦力来播种豆子和玉米,我要匀出精力,用来播种——如真诚、真理、朴实、信心、纯真等等,假如这样的种子还没有丧失的话.”开荒种地,回归人类的“粗野”本性,生活在一种经过省察的生活里,作者面对的是人生最本质的问题。梭罗这种简朴的生活方式似乎和中国古代的隐居颇有几分相似。晋代的陶渊明就体会过，群山葱葱、幽径模糊、山湖静寂、紫雾腾腾、孤舟寒江、冰雪淅淅，无忧无虑地创造自己的人生，想想就令人心醉！但两千多年前的那些隐居者多数是官场不得志的官员，那些生活平淡不惊的老百姓哪儿会冒生命危险闯荡江湖呢？而梭罗在瓦尔登湖畔的两年半光阴就显得更加的弥足珍贵，作者的精神更显得勇敢无畏。

在作者的眼里，淳朴的山林才是他的依靠，自然才是他的归属。文中透漏着对于瓦尔登湖的热爱，对于小屋的热爱，对于山林的热爱，对于林中小动物的热爱，对于大自然万物的热爱。这种热爱是与他简朴乐观的情操分不开的。

“生长在杂草蔓生的林间小路上的香蕨木和木蓝上的露珠会把你下半身打湿。丛生栎的叶子泛着光，好似有液体在上面流过。透过树木看见的小塘像天空一样满是光亮。??你见到月光从森林深处一个个树桩上返射回来，仿佛她在照耀万物时有所选择，她的星星点点的光芒使人想起一种叫做月亮籽的植物——似乎是月亮把它们种在这些地方??”这一段文字，仿若童年时代的一个梦，在我们长大后，像美丽的泡沫一般随风越飘越远，最后破裂，被我们在每天机械般精准忙碌的生活中遗忘。

但是正如金钱不能换取健康一样,优裕的物质始终替代不了心灵莫大的贫乏.简单、纯净永远是一种人生智慧。我们匆促的脚步所追逐的终极目的无非是内心的安顿,灵魂的解脱,而这些仿佛距离我们并不遥远。在忏悔的勇气和钟爱的情怀里,那些看似简单的澄静、平和与安详,却可以使人生脱俗,使生活更具有方向.这些在梭罗崇尚实践的精神内核里,永远闪烁着朴素唯物主义的思想光辉。如果梭罗仅仅给我们留下一部一个男人在林中生活的记载，或者说他仅仅退隐到森林之中，在那儿记载着他对社会的抱怨。甚至说，如果他想把这两者都合到一本书里，那么《瓦尔登湖》就不会有这一百年的生命。

正像一切所进展的一样，梭罗记下了人跟自然的关系，人在社会中的困境和人希望提高自然

的关系，人在社会中的困境和人希望提高自我精神的习性，连他自己恐怕也没有意识到自己在做什么；他一会儿为自我辩护，一会儿充满了喜悦、自由、奔放、创造出了一个独特的煎蛋卷，让人们在饥饿的一天不断从中汲以营养。这本书写成于19世纪中叶，那时正是资本主义的飞速发展时期，在当时那个物欲横流的时代，作者冒了的大忌，特立独行，挑战传统的思想，实在令人敬仰。而梭罗心中的这种魄力，这种不带世俗观念的思想，让我对这本书产生浓厚的兴趣。他的思想就如同一丝清风，不着痕迹地让我精神一振——一种快乐的简朴的生活！充满物质享受的生活固然很诱人，许多人都认为金钱可以主宰一切，事实上，生活中也存在这样的现象。于是，人们开始疯狂地寻求赚钱的机会，漂亮的跑车、绚丽的珠宝、奢侈的饭菜、华贵的别墅等等开始陆陆续续出现在我们的生活中。知道他们老去，迎接死亡时，才注意到自己一生究竟在做什么。

梭罗如一位看穿了喧嚣尘世老人，“我们被迫生活得这样周到和认真，崇奉自己的生活，而否定变革的可能。??可是从圆心可以画出多少条半径来，而生活方式就有这样的多。一切变革，都是值得思考的奇迹，??当一个人把他想象的事实提炼为他的理论之时，我预见到，一切人最后都要在这样的基础上建筑起他们的生活来。”他也写出他到林中去独居的目的：我到林中去，因为我希望谨慎地生活，只面对生活的基本事实，看看我是否学得到生活要教育我的东西，免得到了临死的时候，才发现我根本就没有生活过。我不希望度过非生活的生活，生活是这样的可爱；我却也不愿意去修行过隐逸的生活，除非是万不得已。我要生活得深深地把生命的精髓都吸到，要生活得稳稳当当，生活得斯巴达式的，以便根除一切非生活的东西，划出一块刈割的面积来，细细地刈割或修剪，把生活压缩到一个角隅里去，把它缩小到最低的条件中，如果它被证明是卑微的，那末就把那真正的卑微全部认识到，并把它的卑微之处公布于世界；或者，如果它是崇高的，就用切身的经历来体会它，在我下一次远游时，也可以作出一个真实的报道。”

我只愿这样安静的活着：不论你的生命如何卑贱，你要面对它，生活它；不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富的时候，倒是最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也找得到缺点。尽管贫困，你要爱你的生活。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快，高兴，光荣的时辰。夕陽反射在济贫院的窗上，像射在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春溶化。我只看到，一个安心的人，在那里也也象在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。

像一汪宁静的湖水。

2012级翻译一班 赵隆华（外国语系体育部）