He perceived a world of diversity between the natural philosopher and the more limited man of science. Approached with a sense of wonder and of countless persistence, nature gave Thoreau with earnings of surpassing the interferences of everyday life and of concentrating on what was significant. His expeditions in Concord were made of friendship with nature, toward haughtier exposures; Thoreau became one with the environment. Nature, he sensed, was a specific stimulant to the human spirit in an age dedicated to business, politics, and to the extent of degrading humans, industrialization and urbanization. Today’s world consists of the fruitless social relations and the continuance of human establishments at best in need have changed, at worst
