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亨利·戴维·梭罗：瓦尔登湖·摘录 73
亨利·戴维·梭罗《瓦尔登湖》· Walden · 健康 · 行动 · 成长 · 人性
They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting fishing and the like have not yet given place to the former. Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common. But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.
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定位：Excerpt 73 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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有人说美国人娱乐少，因为公共假日不多，大人小孩玩的游戏不如英国多，这是错的。因为这里狩猎、钓鱼等原始而孤独的娱乐还没被取代。梭罗同时代几乎每个新英格兰男孩十到十四岁就扛猎枪，猎场不像英国贵族保留地那样有限，甚至比野蛮人的还广阔。难怪他们不常留在公地玩。但变化已发生，不是因为更人道，而是猎物变少；也许猎人才是猎物最好的朋友，人道协会也不例外。这揭示了一个悖论：保护动物有时靠减少捕猎，而非道德提升。
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梭罗讨论美国人的娱乐方式，对比英国，并指出狩猎传统因猎物减少而改变。
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