... 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 ... describes nature as a retreat for man. "To thy sick heart, Thou wilt find nothing here / of all that pained thee in the haunts of men, / And made thee loathe thy life" (Bryan 828). Men co...

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... is bottomless, Thoreau offers a spiritual explanation: Humans need to believe 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 a perfect forest mirror, set around with stones as precious to my eye as ... if fewer or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations ... , whose quicksi...

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