Thoreau's View On Wilderness

Thoreau on Wilderness
(An Evaluation of View on Wilderness) One of America’s greatest and most well known transcendentalist and environmental thinkers had varying opinions on the wild, nature, and wilderness. Living two years on Walden pond, alone, made Thoreau realize several different things. In the conclusion of Walden, he states, “I left the woods for as a good a reason as I went there.” The question now is would someone of the twenty-first century share the same thoughts? The view of a contemporary on the wilderness, directly related to Thoreau’s perspective, definitely share similarities and differences. Initially, it is assumed that there are more differences than similarities, which is usually correct. Thoreau views his entire two years at Walden an experiment, which he carefully documents in his text Walden. Thoreau’s view on the wild and nature is not that its just pretty and fun to spend time in, it was more “the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.” (Emerson). As Nash states, “Wilderness symbolized the unexplored qualities and untapped capacities of
If a contemporary person from Ten Sleep Wyoming was asked whether or not they agree with Thoreau's view on the wild, the answer would differ wildly from someone in a large city like New York, New York. Actually living near, and being around wilderness your whole life will dramatically change your opinion on the wild. It all matters where you live and what you have experienced. Based on that, a person can make an opinion on whether or not they believe in Thoreau’s views and ideas. As quoted by Tauber, “ Thoreau's nature studies are artistic in the sense that they offer us a new way of seeing the world..” Some people might disagree with his sense, but its all dependent on if you have actually ever took a walk in the woods, got your feet wet in the lake, hunted for pine cones,