... thy Creator be, / who gave this bright light Hardin 3 luster unto thee! / Admired, adored forever, be that majesty!"(Bradstreet 1) Bradstreet sees nature as amazing and awesome. She is so taken back by the glories found in nature and around her. Nature praises God with all of its beauties and creatures. The creatures of the forest praise God by all of the sounds they make. Although Bradstreet and other mortals ... as being lush and green. Green is used to symbolized life and rejuvenation. Men are renewed when in nature. They are blessed by the suns and the sweet breath of the trees. Bry...

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... , even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the colors of both. Viewed from a hilltop, it reflects the color of the sky, but near at hand it is of a yellowish tint next to the shore where you can see the sand, then a light green (235) Thoreau states that the colors of the water are different ... in infinity. He suggests that the pond is not just a natural phenomenon but also a metaphor for spiritual belief. The pond can also be used as a sort of spiritual mirror that is perfect in all ways. In such a day, in September or October, Walden is ...

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... (pastoral area) where life was easy and virtually free of thought or problem. After the original sin was committed the Lord God cast them out of the Garden of Eden and into the wilderness, where the "savage- beasts lay. This is a perfect example of the view of wilderness by the general public and the authors of the Bible prior to the mid nineteen hundreds. As punishment Adam and Eve were cast ... away from the ideal living conditions of the pastoral garden and forced to live in the untamed wilderness. Another example of how society throughout time has viewed the wild in a negative light...

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... how "they are all beasts of burden, " and how they can be used to "carry some portion of our thoughts" (893). While his writing may seem to describe human nature to a point at which most can understand, Thoreau also defines the nonhuman aspects of nature. Throughout Walden, Thoreau pays great attention to his surroundings at the pond, admiring the small details of the forest with an expert eye. Thoreau ... includes passages that describe the simple side to nature. At one point, he writes that he found a mouse that "probably had never ... not to be done. He believes that people waste th...

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