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This book collates Thoreau's 14 volumes of journals and all of his works, recreates Thoreau's complete experience of observing, writing about, and studying nature from the perspective of ecocriticism, explores Thoreau's literary ideals, ecological thoughts, and philosophy of life, and attempts to restore his complex and multi-faceted life, as well as the beauty and ferocity of nature revealed by his views on life, life and death, and his ambiguous ecological outlook, so that we can have a vision of how knowledge of nature is the basic pathway for engaging in life.