1.) Thoreau’s journals, within “American Earth” by Al Gore, consolidates numerous themes and materials revolving around environmental writings. Sequentially he starts out contemplating that even after one dies they will live on through nature. He then continues to elaborate on the beauty of nature and how humans take it for granted. This is evident when he’s describing men that have grown ignorant to sounds of nature, “silence audible,” as he calls it. Why? The modernization of society, causing man and nature to become ignorant of each other. We are then reminded that we are not infinite, that there was an “eternity behind me as well as the eternity before,” and must uphold its integrity. Thoreau then explains that nature speaks to us, comparing us to telegraph wires. He then finishes the collection of journals by reminding us that earth is not a dead rock but alive and full of life.
2.) Walden starts out with a man that is building his house near a pond, and is cutting down wood. He describe the beauties environment around the pond. The man then is finely ready to buy a shack and move back to his lot by the pond. This transaction reminds him of birds, some bird …show more content…
He say that nature is just as good as a teacher. He is saddened by the fact that people are taking ownership of such land, that it is putting “nature under a veil,” which will cause a downward course which will be seen in the work. He compared gathering the berries on the free land to gathering happiness, which will no longer happen on private land. He starts to think about the Indians and their way of life, and our forefathers and how he resents them for the set up of our land. Beautiful things are what make people come to town, he says, we can’t put price on those things. He then reiterates his point that nature is one of the best teachers, and additionally adds, one of the best
2.) Walden starts out with a man that is building his house near a pond, and is cutting down wood. He describe the beauties environment around the pond. The man then is finely ready to buy a shack and move back to his lot by the pond. This transaction reminds him of birds, some bird …show more content…
He say that nature is just as good as a teacher. He is saddened by the fact that people are taking ownership of such land, that it is putting “nature under a veil,” which will cause a downward course which will be seen in the work. He compared gathering the berries on the free land to gathering happiness, which will no longer happen on private land. He starts to think about the Indians and their way of life, and our forefathers and how he resents them for the set up of our land. Beautiful things are what make people come to town, he says, we can’t put price on those things. He then reiterates his point that nature is one of the best teachers, and additionally adds, one of the best