瓦尔登湖

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond，in Concord，Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.I lived there two years and two months.At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.

在我写下文那时——确切地讲，应该是文章的主体部分，独自住在森林里，跟最近的邻居也有一英里地的距离，我住的房子是我自己建造的，在麻萨诸塞州瓦尔登湖畔上，与大自然和谐相处，我靠自己的双手维持生计，并在那里住了两年零两个月。目前，我又恢复了惬意无比的旅居生活。