【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 s, and the spreading sands weighed much on his mind. He thus investigated and advocated to the protection of nature. Thoreau’s aesthetic view of nature. Thoreau was ardent observer of nature, and he depicted nature so earnestly. In his works Walden, the landscape of the lake was beautiful and graceful, the forest was quiet and flourishing, the birds and the mice were lovely and friendly. In a word, Thoreau was intoxicated in the beauty of nature, and at the same time his searching soul was being purified. In Walden he wrote, “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It’s earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”?4? He pared the lake to the earth’s eye, it was evident that he loved the lake so much and he got the most important enlightenment from it .the aesthetics of nature had been appreciated by him since his childhood. His mother used to bring him to the woods in a sunny afternoon, they went hiking, held piic parties and listened to the songs of the birds. Therefore, Thoreau cultivated his love of nature from an early age. And at the age of four, he for the first time saw Walden which left him a deep impression。 he wrote Seasons when he was ten yeas old, which describe the sceneries and changes of weather, it was the earliest works of him. Nature for Thoreau, just as he observed in Walden “every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with nature herself.”?5?here to some extent, nature was the God. And Thoreau was a son of God, not only did he appreciate the nature but also he admired her so much. He humbly showed his reverence for nature, and regarded her as a personified beauty. ? ? ? ? 內(nèi)蒙古民族大學(xué) 本科生畢業(yè)論文 4 In the chapter The Ponds his observation brought him a great enlightenment. He put it in this way, “it is the same liquid joy and happiness to itself and its Maker, ay, and it may be to me. It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile! He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified in his thought, and in his will bequeathed it to concord. I see by its face that it is visited by the same reflection。 and I can almost say, Walden, is it you? It is no dream of mine, To ornament a line。 I cannot e nearer to God and Heaven Than I live to Walden even, I am its stony shore, And the breeze that passes o’er。 In the hollow of my hand, Are its water and its sand, And its deepest resort, Lie high in my thought… ”?6? Thoreau showed his deep insight about Walden. For Thoreau , she was kind and generous And nature offered sunshine, wind, rain, summer and winter, and constantly provided us healthy and wellbeing. He believed that the voice of the cow at dusk far away was a sweet and wellrhymed song。 and pared the owl’s songs as voices joining together in the night in mourning。 he even interpreted the noisy of the frogs as songs sung by the ancient drinkers. Thoreau’s awareness of ecology crisis and environmental protection. Thoreau’s deep love and reverence of nature formed the basic of his environmental ethics and policies. When he was boating on the river of his hometown, he was happy to see the landscape around the river being free of polluted. But he also aware that the disorder of ecology caused by human being. He was anger and felt pity ? ? 內(nèi)蒙古民族大學(xué) 本科生畢業(yè)論文 5 when he saw the trees near the lake being cut down, and he first paddled a boat on Walden, he found it was pletely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grapevines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass, but since left those shores the woodchoppers have still further laid them waste, and now for many a year there will be no more rambling through the aisles of the wood, with occasional vistas through which you see the water. The Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. He asked how could he expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down. We can sense the pity and indignation of Thoreau between the lines. In the woods of Maine, when he saw hundreds of factories turned thousands of trees into furniture or tools, he thought the woodchoppers as busy devils. In concord, Thoreau found that the flourishing woods reduced into the uneven wasteland, and the sand spreads at an alarming speed, due to deforestation and destruction of grassland. And in a beach, the dead whales was lying everywhere. The local people earned their living by hunting whale. The fat part of the whale was used by them, the head of the whale was left on the beach. In consequence, the air was smelly and polluted miles of the surroundings. But no measures were taken to tackle the problem. Thoreau thus appealed to all man protecting the woods and grasslands, to keep the balance between man and nature, and to maintain the order of ecology. He held the view that each creature, living was much better than dead, it was the same to man and a pine tree. Anyone who truly understands this would rather preserve its life than destroy it. Thoreau seemed at first in awe of the train and the merce it brought to the area from far away places. He even says that their whistle can be heard so far, that the farmers set their clock by them, and thus one well conducted institution regulates a whole country. It means to emphasize how the lootive had industrialized almost all aspects of human life. He seemed nostalgic for the world he used to know, and regretful that such technology can reach into even the broadest of wilderness, and how it seemed to corrupt the harmony that is the silent natural environment only filled by 內(nèi)蒙古民族大學(xué) 本科生畢業(yè)論文 6 the sound