There is a great quote that was once said by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford; “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. This quote could easily be used to describe one man named Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau (1817-1862) was a well-known naturalist writer. He has written many passages about what he sees as beautiful which is the natural world around him. In his eyes, the world is a beautiful place that needs to be written about. Some of Thoreau’s work includes “Life without Principle”, “Walking”, and “Cape Cod”. Each of these passage talks about a certain aspect of the world that Thoreau wants to bring to his reader’s attention; human existence and purpose in the natural world, freedom and wildness, and natural places of wonder.
Cape Cod, published in 1865, really spoke out to me when I read some of his passages. Within one chapter (chapter 4 The Beach), I started to realize the beauty behind his observations and meditation. Thoreau was not just trying to describe what he saw, which he did beautifully through his use of similes, metaphors, and sensations. He was trying to get his reader to understand his emotion and appreciation for what was going on before him. People cannot read other’s minds especially Thoreau’s, so he tried to put his thoughts and expressions into words in a way that would make a blind man cry. The …show more content…
If Thoreau wanted us to save the world, then he would have become a scientist and tried to find a solution to start preserving the world during his time. He did not do this but instead wrote about what was just as or even more so important than that; natural life. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a motto Thoreau would probably agree with. The world isn’t broken so we don’t need to fix it, we just need to stand back and
Cape Cod, published in 1865, really spoke out to me when I read some of his passages. Within one chapter (chapter 4 The Beach), I started to realize the beauty behind his observations and meditation. Thoreau was not just trying to describe what he saw, which he did beautifully through his use of similes, metaphors, and sensations. He was trying to get his reader to understand his emotion and appreciation for what was going on before him. People cannot read other’s minds especially Thoreau’s, so he tried to put his thoughts and expressions into words in a way that would make a blind man cry. The …show more content…
If Thoreau wanted us to save the world, then he would have become a scientist and tried to find a solution to start preserving the world during his time. He did not do this but instead wrote about what was just as or even more so important than that; natural life. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a motto Thoreau would probably agree with. The world isn’t broken so we don’t need to fix it, we just need to stand back and