散文精选网瓦尔登湖是美国文学家梭罗的代表作《瓦尔登湖》（Walden）的主要背景。这本书是一本以自然主义、反物质主义为主题的文集，探讨了个人自由与社会限制、人与自然的关系、对现代社会的批评等课题。以下是瓦尔登湖经典句子：
1. “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 learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
2. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
3. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
4. “As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
5. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
6. “I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely;”
7. “The sun is but a morning star.”
8. “To be awake is to be alive.”
9. “Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.”
10. “We need the tonic of wildness.”
这些句子都深刻体现了梭罗的思想观点和哲学理念，意味深长，启人深思。书中的思想与现代社会仍有着很高的价值与意义。
