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mgalletti22 wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

On page 142 of my copy of the book, it is 1845 nearing the end of March and Thoreau is starting the process of building his small house, he first asks to borrow an axe. The owner of this axe states that the axe […]
Jackie Spieles commented on the post, Seeing Nature in Society: Thoreau's Botanical Descriptions of Clothes, on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

That’s a great point, Maris! At first it often seems like Thoreau sees society in a negative light and sees nature in a positive light, but passages like this and the chapter “The Village” show how his viewpoints […]
Maris Woldin wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

Thoreau often uses metaphor to express a situation or to invoke an image of nature. These stylistic choices not only give his writing vibrance and life, but they also inevitably give the reader multiple ways to […]
Anna Halgash wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

“To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! No […]
Anna Halgash commented on the post, Solitude and Companionship, on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

Do you think Thoreau has a sort medium between solitude and society? Or does he completely reject society in favor of solitude in nature? I believe that he still does value interaction, but to a lesser extent than […]
Anna Halgash commented on the post, Life's Lesson: A Journal From Johnson's Woods, on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

Hannah,

Do you think what we have to learn from nature is adjusting to death with grace? Is it apathy on the part of nature rather than only a determination to persevere and continue? I think because we see […]
Jackie Spieles commented on the post, Thoreau's View of Society and Nature through The Ponds, on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

I think this is interesting because in so many places today people see nature as a “vacation spot” where they go to admire beautiful scenery or climate for a short period of time. I visited Yosemite National Park […]
Tina Lam wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

McCook, Stuart. “The World Was My Garden: Tropical Botany and Cosmopolitanism in American Science, 1898-1935.” 499-507.

McCook, a history professor who focuses on the environmental history of tropical crops and […]
Alvaro Guerrero wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

The primary source “The World Was My Garden” by McCook was about the impact that US imperialism had on botany research and the market for plants. THe author argues that because of American expansion is that […]
liamh wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

McCook, Stuart. “The World Was My Garden: Tropical Botany and Cosmopolitanism in American Science, 1898-1935.” 499-507. The University of Wisconsin Press.

Historian Stuart McCook examines American tropical […]
Kobe Matesic wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

McCook, Stuart. The World Was My Garden. 1935. […]
Brenadn D O wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

McCook, Stewart. The World Was My Garden. 1935. […]
Matt Prill wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

McCook, Stewart. The World Was My Garden. 1935. h […]
Katie F. wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

“Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State.” The SHAFR Guide Online, n.d., 499–507. https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim050140269.

Stuart McCook, a professor of history at the […]
Cat wrote a new post on the site Latin America & the US 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

Pablo Navarro-Rivera, “The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico,” in Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, accessed February 10, 2020, htt […]
Hannah wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

Different from our view of nature as something to be preserved and untouched, Thoreau believes nature is something we should use in our effort to live simply. He uses the bean field as a simpler means to produce […]
eherczeg22 wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

His attitude toward society really through me off. I didn’t like how he described the way the town worked. How men would eat nuts and gossip, things like that. It gave me the vibe that one, he felt superior to […]
Yohannes Abateneh wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

“Many a traveler came out of his way to see me and
the inside of my house, and, as an excuse for calling,
asked for a glass of water.” In chapter six, on the passage that begins with that sentence, Walden writes […]
Pilar Randolph wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

On page 243, Thoreau describes the lake as “the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is the earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees […]
Vanesa Rubio Toxtle wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2020 6 years, 6 months ago

In this chapter, I was able to get a better understanding Thoreau’s attitude toward society. He begins by stating that he likes company like any other man. He talks about the visitors who pass by his home in th […]
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