Significance Of Nature In The World

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A strong connection to nature brings physical health, mental creativity spiritual fulfillment and personal growth without the corruption of the material possessions that society offers. Somewhere along the way, humanity lost focus and started to build things while disregarding nature. Humanity got busy, and we marveled at our ability to create. People lost what is really important in life, and that is nature.
Thoreau’s stance on nature was astonishing and self righteous. Nature was a big part of his life. It was his main journey that he continued to take everyday of his life. He considered it to be healthy, enjoyable and relaxing. He writes “A man’s health requires many acres of meadow to his prospect as a farm does loads of muck” He believes that being surrounded by the wilderness refreshes his soul. Society can be so chaotic and it ruins nature’s beauty. When he walks around the woods he clears his head from society’s duties and becomes one with nature; he can be his true self. Thoreau’s biggest opinion was to keep society where it is, and as far away and separate from the woods. Industries were expanding and science and technology were growing and that pleased him to a certain extent but he didn’t feel that minimizing the wilderness was beneficial. He writes “Man and his affair’s, church and state and school, trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture, even politics, the most alarming of them all, - I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape”.( pg 184)
He considered the woods to be his home. He felt comfortable there and the cold and solitude became his friends, to him nothing was more important than taking
time to walk along in the woods. He writes “Life consists with wilderness. The most alive is the wildest. Net yet subdued by man, its presence refreshes him. Thoreau believed that a person could find the spirit of nature in his own backyard and wilderness was ...