Chapter 2.

"Walden", translated as "Walden" in mainland China and "Lakeside Essays" in Taiwan, is a famous collection of essays written by the American writer Henry David Thoreau. The book was published in 1854. In the book, Thoreau described in detail the two years and two months he spent in a regenerated forest on the shores of Walden Pond and his many thoughts during this period.

When we are getting further and further away from nature, when our spirits have become more and more numb, the book "Walden Pond" can undoubtedly bring us back to the pure world of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau, writer and thinker. He grew up in the village of Concord, the center of the transcendental movement near Boston. His father was a small business owner. Graduated from Harvard University at the age of 20, worked as a teacher and engaged in various manual labor. I met Emerson when I was a student. Under the influence of Emerson, I read the works of Coleridge, Carlyle and others, studied Eastern philosophical thoughts, and at the same time thought in the "self-help" spirit advocated by Emerson, forming a A set of independent insights.

Thoreau's articles are concise, powerful, simple and natural, rich in ideological content, and unique in American prose in the 19th century. His ideas had a great influence on the British Labor Party, India's Gandhi and the American black leader Martin Luther King.