【正文】 can see, even people who have democratic thoughts like Walt Whitman could not understand Thoreau. As a matter of fact, Thoreau does not have any contempt to human, and he is not arrogant. On the contrary, he has full feeling to human, he loves them, and he walks into the wild only wanting to tell them: look, there is another way we can live our life. Thoreau was doomed to be lonely in his day, but after his death he is not lonely in Walden because more and more people realize his value and begin to treat him as their spiritual guide. What’s the essence of Thoreau’s idea, and where his value could be used? Causes for Thoreau’s view of nature When we talk about the extraordinary geniusThoreau, one thing could not be avoided, that is, the factors which shape Thoreau’s point. Here we want to 2 classify them into there parts: personal reasons, regional reasons and cultural reasons. Personal reasons Thoreau was born on 12th June, 1817 in a little town named Concord in Massachusetts. He was the third of four children. His father was a businessman who was busy running about his work all year through. Naturally, his mother took the responsibility to educate the children. Indeed, Thoreau’s mother was a woman who loves nature, she cultivated his simple personality and the affection to nature. In sunny days, she took their children to go for an outing。在物欲橫流的當今社會， iii 梭羅的自然觀已然成為我們規(guī)范自身的一面鏡子。Thoreau’s View of Nature A Thesis Submitted to College of Foreign Language Qufu Normal University Xingtan College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to my supervisor, Zhuhe for the work she did the last few months. She gave me constant and valuable advice, read my drafts ii and offered incisive ments on them. Without her help, the thesis could not have been finished smoothly and could never have reached its present form. I am also grateful to all my teachers who have given me excellent lectures and great help, which are indispensable to the pletion of this thesis. In addition, my sincere gratitude also goes to my classmates and friends who have offered generous help and useful suggestions during my process of writing this thesis. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to all the writers whose works have been referred to in this thesis. 摘 要 亨利本文擬通過對梭羅自然觀的研究，引起人們對自身不合理行為的注意，改變貪婪、浮躁以及不真實的個性，從而親近自然、善待自然，恢復純真的人性，填補精神的空白。 they got close to the nature, they touched the grass, the flowers and listened to the birds. Thoreau grew up in this kind of atmosphere, and visited Walden the first time in his five. Thoreau’s soul was labeled with a nature mark through his mother’s teaching. When he was ten, he wrote an essay named “Season”, in which, he described thoroughly the changes of weather and scenery in Concord. We can say that Thoreau’s interest was formed in his childhood, and in his mind, a piece of leaf, a strong wind, a drop of water were all gifts from nature. What’s more, Thoreau is man who like pondering and observing. As he describes the pickerel in his book Walden: “when I see them lying on the ice, or in the well which the fisherman cuts in the ice, making a little hole to admit the water, I am always surprised by their rare beauty, as if they were fabulous fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life” (Henry David Thoreau 221). Examples that can show Thoreau is keen on observing are numberless. Just because this kind of habit, he could get to know the natural character of various things on the earth, and deeply intoxicated in the nature. When studying in Harvard University, Thoreau wore green clothes while other students wore black ones as the school ordered. Perhaps green is his expectation to life. Thoreau is a man who hated 3 to live an immutable life, and his character is marked by antidogmatism. He believed a unchanged life would lead to desperation to life. “A mess of men lead lives of quite desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into desperate country, and have to console yourself with bravery minks and muskrats” (Henry David Thoreau 5). Thoreau also emphasizes on practice, and he thinks nature could teach everything human being need. We can live a substantial life as long as we place ourselves in nature. “Where we live in nature likes a fairyland. You can walk in any direction towards the earth39。s initiative, lying the ideological foundation of romantic literature which expresses the individuality. Thoreau lived in the heyday of