provocating, encouraging, enlightening...

Walden is, as Thoreau himself said, " - I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be. We, as readers know that the words startling and informing will only related to fact and truth. No one will read something which is not informative and not "true". Thoreau is right when he used the word "startling", because truth can be startling for people who live in illusionary foundation of life, who being deceived by their own foolishness. Walden is a book of a truth seeker's experience by learning and experiencing, by dealing with the fact and reality. In Walden, Nature become the guru or a ladder to achieve a higher level of living. To live harmoniously with nature means to live simple and free or independent (being self-sufficient). That kind mode of living will sharpen your faculties and potentials and thus elevate your living into a higher level of living.

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