Natural Phenomena

Veronika Gyurjyan Professor Bachman English 28 4 February 2010 immanent Phenomena Henry David Thoreau was against of survival. Rather than purposefully living, the volume of peoples go throughs argon little more than a series of reactions to everything. Most people pull round today, envisageing that they will live their actual living tomorrow. He was qualifying to discover the aliveness around him, bringing his life into the harmonious lot with all the movements around him.In 1845, July 4, he decided to move and tolerate at Walden Pond, which is located in Concord, Massachusetts about 18 miles northwesterly of Boston. sustainment in Walden for dickens years, Henry David Thoreau wrote the book Walden or life sentence in the Woods, summarizing his experience, his living in Walden, far away from society. Live life rather than let life live you. Certain individuals might think that we are living life just because we are alive. To Henry David Thoreau (philosopher and semina l artist), living life was living a natural life that the majority of people are non living.Natural life means reawaking and expanding the gays awareness, observing and discovering something that exists in science, which is more than unusual and difficult to understand. Discovering and reawaking something unfathomed is similar to giving a life to something that already exists, adding more visual modality and creativeness. Walden by Henry David Thoreau is an American classic. The book is part personal contract bridge of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery. Was Henry a hermit?I think he choose to isolate himself from society to gain more objectiveness about life. The whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, much(prenominal) as existing above or beyond humane friendship or understanding, a central theme of the American Romantic period. In his first and largest chapter, Economy, he outlines his project, A two-year and two-months stay at the cozy tightly shingled cottage in the woods near Walden Pond. I think that separation from the civilization gives a chance to reanalyze the entire life.Living in Walden was productive for Thoreau. In the chapter Where I lived and what I lived for chapter he describes how he was writing every day. And that time in Walden was his close to productive as a writer. Another important purpose of his separation from society was realizing an sizeableness and beneficial effect of solitude. I never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude. (Thoreau 177). Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude and closeness to nature. Walden is not an environmental book.It is about one mans attempt to find the principles by which the life is a proper life. Every morning was a satisfactory invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with temperament herself (Thoreau 132). Henry Thoreau was enjoying every given morning, accepting is as a induct from nature. That was his chance to be closer to innocence. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not guide what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live thick and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its last terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and original meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world.. (Thoreau 135). Thoreau wanted to get the most from his life by determining what was really important, and he did that by removing himself more or less from the normal life of Concord, MA in the 1840s. One side of this was economi cal he reduced his material needs by living simply, so that he would not have to spend much time musical accompaniment a lifestyle that he did not need or handle about. The other side was spiritual, not unlike the spiritual retreats of eastern and westerly religions.He liked it so much that he lived in his confine for more than two years, and came back with a great story. He worked on this story for several years after leaving the pond, until it became Walden as we realise it today. By writing a Walden, Henry Thoreau gave a life to those two years and two months he spent in the woods. He sacred his life to the exploration of nature, not as a backdrop of human activity, but as living. He was divinely conscious of the enthusiasm of Nature, the sense of the rhythms and the harmony of her solitude.In Nature Henry found an analogy to the Transcendentalism. He did not study the Nature otherwise it could make him dogmatic. He love Nature. WHO nearer Natures life would truly come mu st nearest come to him of whom I speak He all kinds knew,the forthright and the dumb Masterful in genius was he, and unique, Patient, sagacious, tender, frolicsome.This Concord Pan would often his whistle take, And forth from wood and fen, field, hill, and lake, Trooping around him in their several guise, The diffident inhabitants their haunts forsake Then he, like ? op, man would satirize, Hold up the orbit wild to clearest view Of undiscerning manhoods puzzled eyes, And annoying say, Lo mirrors here for you Be true as these, if ye would be more wise. plant Cited Book Henry, Thoreau. Walden. Penguin Classics, 1985. Web Site Amos Bronson Alcott. American Transcendentalism Web. 21 January. 2010