Thoreau/Nature Essays

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A 3 page essay that discusses 2 essays by Henry David Thoreau. Writing in the first half of the nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau’s writing seems to modern readers to invoke a time when nature was freer and less constrained by the imprint of humanity and its influences. Nevertheless, Thoreau, in several of his nature essays, makes it clear that he sees human influence on nature as changing it, categorizing it and taming it to fit the requirements of commercialization. In this manner, Thoreau’s essays, “Huckleberries” and “Wild Apples,” are quite prophetic. Bibliography lists 2 sources.