【正文】 ter 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。 he is a poet who sings of the iv nature。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(shí)的個(gè)性，從而親近自然、善待自然，恢復(fù)純真的人性，填補(bǔ)精神的空白。梭羅是十九世紀(jì)美國超驗(yàn)主義代表作家之一，他是一位生態(tài)文學(xué)作家，是一位自然詩人，是踐行簡樸生活的自然兒女。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 亨利戴維在物欲橫流的當(dāng)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。 關(guān)鍵詞： 梭羅；自然觀；人性；自然 ABSTRACT Henry David Thoreau is one of the American transcendentalism writers of the nieenth century. He is an ecological literature writer。 he is the son of nature who practices a simple life. Thoreau’s view of nature has already bee a mirror that can reflect and correct our behaviors in the materialistic society. This paper, by researching Thoreau’s nature point, attempts to draw people’s attention to their incorrect behaviors, so they can change their greedy and impetuous personality, and begin to treat nature in a better way. Only in this way could their innocence humanities be regained and their emptiness minds be filled. Key words: Thoreau, nature point, humanity, nature CONTENTS 0. Introduction………………………………………………………………… .……1 1. Thoreau’s nature point ……………………………………………………… .… ..1 Causes for Thoreau’s nature point…………………………………………… ...…1 v Personal reasons for Thoreau’s nature point…………………………… ...…2 Regional reasons for Thoreau’s nature point…………………………… ..… 3 Cultural reasons for Thoreau’s nature point………………………………… 4 The content of Thoreau’s nature point………………………………………… ..… 5 All things on earth have lives …………………………………………… .… 5 Human beings should return to the nature……………………………… ..… 6 2. The influences and enlightenment Thoreau brings us… ..……………………… 8 Life should be simple………………………………………………………… ...… 8 Life should be accorded with personal reality…………………………………… ..9 Human beings should protect nature and respect lives………………… .……… .10 3. Conclusion ………………………………………………………………… .……. 10 Work cited ………………………………………………………………………….. 11 1 0. Introduction When speaking of nature, Henry David Thoreau is the spokesman of his age. His body and mind belong to nature for he is the “son of nature” (