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e to live happy and free. Thoreau listed the basic necessities: food, shelter, clothing and fuel. But Thoreau had a stringent requirements about these necessities. There must be a right amount, and if we ask more than we need, necessities bees luxuries. We should strongly oppose to luxury because they are illusory and meaningless. The pursuit of luxury always makes people lose their direction and bee slaves to life. On the other hand, excessive pursuit of luxury will lead to excessive productive labor, that would cause countless burden and people can not get rid of the daytoday labor work. On the contrary, if we can do as what Thoreau said: “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way” (Thoreau 33), we can have more time to pursue free mind and have more energy to pursue our ideal world. Life should be accorded with personal reality Thoreau believed that life should be downtoearth. Everyone has their own lives, so life should not live in the same way, and we should not imitate others’ lives. “I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account。 for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible。 but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father’s or his mother’s or his neighbor’s instead” (Thoreau 65). Life should not have any paradigms, if we set too many demands, then our lives will be locked. We have our own way to walk, our own life style to live, our own dream to realize,we choose it by ourselves, not get them from others, not finish them in a reluctant way. Living in this highly petitive society, we already have lots of burden to take and lots of things to worry about. Why put another block in 10 front of us by our own hand? Do not force ourselves to pursue unnecessary things. Walk in our pace and rhythm and live our own life. Human beings should protect nature and respect lives The whole nature are alive and things have lives. They request equal rights and treats. Human morality should not lose when facing them because they are creatures as equal as us. Humans should be modest and fair to nature, integrating into it and be a part of it. When facing nature, the first thing we think should not be subjection, that should be protection. Everything’s existence is reasonable, this rationality lies in that each individual has its own resources to use and we should not possess resources beyond our need. In this way, humans and nature’s coexistence could be harmonious. At present, China is in a period of rapid development of the market economy, most of the economic and social development built on the basis of robbing natural resources. This behavior results in a serious conflict between man and nature. Industrial pollution, ecological environment deterioration, increasing corruption, extreme imbalance of urban and rural development, these problems are so urgent to solve. Therefore, positive social structure adjustment, return to nature, return to human kind itself should the goal of the modern civilization. 3. Conclusion Spirit is the home of our soul, and also the most important home in our lifetime. We should purify ourselves when we feel polluted。 we should make ourselves active when we affected by negative thought. We can go to nature to absorb what we can not learn from class. And we can get more than we think. Thoreau, this great person, give us a vivid lesson by using his wisdom. “I think, the best way to understand Thoreau is to read his books carefully. The content of Walden is hard to fake and words never tell lies”(何懷宏 136). We can all bee a 11 better man after contacting with him, either physically or psychologically. 12 Works Cited David Henry, Thoreau. Walden. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2020. David Henry, Thoreau. Walden and other Writings. New York: Bantanbooks, 1981. Waldo Ralph, Emerson. Woodnotes. American Renaissance Report, . Dial, 1 (1840): 242245 Walter, Harding. Thoreau: Man of Concord. New York: Holt ,Rinehart and Winston, 1960. Wright, Morris. “To the Woods: Henry Thoreau”, Territory Ahead. Detroit: University of Michigan, 1958. 董衡巽 . 美國文學(xué)簡史 .北京 : 人民文學(xué)出版社 , 2020. 何懷宏 . 事關(guān)梭羅 .北京:讀書, 5( 1996) 136. 亨利?戴維?梭羅 . 河上一周 .宇嶺譯 . 哈爾濱:北方文藝出版社 , 2020. 亨利 ?戴維 ?梭羅 . 梭羅日記 . 朱子怡譯 .北京:十月文藝出版社, 2020. 亨利 ?戴維 ?梭羅 . 瓦爾登湖.李暮譯.上海:上海三聯(lián)書店, 2020.