Walden Ponds Industrial Revolution

Walden Ponds is an extravagant documentary from a man named David Henry Thoreau. The book begins as a recollection Thoreau spent two years at the Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. His contrast of nature and machinery paved the way into a mix of birds chirping and railroads screeching. During his time at Walden Ponds, he realized the essence of nature was one of pure subsidy and relaxation. Often stretching his arm out into the lake whenever he went fishing, just to hear the sound and vibrato of the water trickling. The destruction of modern technology, the absence of nature from society, and the passing of seasons all contribute to the wonders Thoreau experienced at Walden Ponds. Thoreau was at his prime during the Industrial Revolution. …show more content…
The battling of keeping one's environment, yet the rapid expanding growth of immigrants and farm lands, has disrupted the balance of nature. The closest one may get to nature is to do as Thoreau has done, and live amongst it. Thoreau has shown his disagreeance with the technological beast that parade around the plains, and society. He often tells society “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.” For, the mosquito on the rail is a hyperbole, he accentuates the importance of reminiscing with nature. Nature has allowed all of us to be who we are. Without nature forming the minerals and compounds we need for survival and everyday use, we wouldn't have been able to make such a technological advance. However, this advance in technology and the fact society neglects to enjoy and sympathize with nature is leading to its destruction. Human society lacks the mentality of looking towards a better more efficient future. They were unaware of the pollution and damage they were causing to the earth's water, air, and atmosphere, damaging it with its harsh chemicals and coal emissions. That is why understanding and acknowledging that there is an environmental problem, one will be able to see the essence and pure substance nature …show more content…
However, as Thoreau spent his time at Walden Ponds, he was able to enjoy the variety and adversity the weather seasons had to offer. Living as part of nature, it shows how he was able to adapt to the different seasons. Each and every season holds an enormous amount of affect on the environment. Whether it is too cold, and freezes the plants, thereby harming and killing them, or whether the plants would die from lack of sun or water. Thoreau was able to see how nature responds to the whether conditions. Throughout the book, Thoreau expressed the pond as one whose landscape is the “most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” Throughout the seasons, Thoreau described the pond as it was. Covered in a slick sheen of ice or whether the whether was a cold summer night where one could see the live fish jumping out of the water as if they were playing a most interesting game. The seasons affect the environment not only in a case of weather, but as one of breeding proportions. Depending on the time of season, diferent animals and young would come and enjoy themselves by the pond. The pond was always surrounded by a variety of animals; whether it being the chirping birds, the dancing fish, or the former winter visitors. The seasons were apart of life at the pond, and the pond itself was a part of them as