Project Title: “Thoreau’s Impact on Scientific Environmentalism”
Project Abstract:
Henry David Thoreau—New England transcendentalist, social critic, author, poet, and naturalist—was a Renaissance man. Nearly everyday, year round, he explored every inch of Walden Woods, Estabrook Woods, and Concord, recording in his journals vivid, detailed accounts of what he heard, smelled, and saw. With this context, my essay will mainly discuss Thoreau’s nature writings, where he anticipated and impacted the methods and the findings of ecology and environmental history, the two sources of modern-day environmentalism. In analyzing Thoreau’s Walden, Bog, “The Succession of Forest Trees,” and “Wild Apples,” I’ll explore the connection between literature/rhetoric and science.
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