| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| ·Literature review on Henry David Thoreau and his masterpiece Walden | 第10-13页 |
| ·The arrangement of my thesis | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Egocentrism in Walden | 第16-26页 |
| ·Nature as a means of self-understanding | 第17-19页 |
| ·Nature as a means of self-exploration | 第19-21页 |
| ·Nature as a means of self-development | 第21-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Ecocentrism in Walden | 第26-41页 |
| ·Thoreau as a scientist | 第28-31页 |
| ·Thoreau as an environmentalist | 第31-33页 |
| ·Thoreau’s ecological consciousness | 第33-41页 |
| ·Thoreau’s poetic dwelling | 第34-36页 |
| ·The economy of nature | 第36-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Thoreau’s paradoxical attitude toward human-nature relationship | 第41-56页 |
| ·The combination of four modes of Waldens | 第43-50页 |
| ·Transcendental Walden | 第44-46页 |
| ·Romantic Walden | 第46页 |
| ·Matter-of-fact Walden | 第46-48页 |
| ·Ecological Walden | 第48-50页 |
| ·Thoreau’s alternating perspective | 第50-52页 |
| ·Thoreau’s profound ambivalence over nature and culture | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第56-61页 |
| ·The assessment of Thoreau’s natural view | 第57-58页 |
| ·A rethinking on the western natural philosophy | 第58-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
