BIOL 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Nature Reserve, Transcendentalism
22 Mar 2016
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Wisconsin, where he learned to look at the land with new awareness. Here he realized natural sciences complimented worship and his discovery of. His irst project was simply to wander: he ended up hiking from indiana to the gulf of mexico, his journal contained the seeds of his most basic ideas. Wilderness was illed with divine beauty and harmony. If only civilized people would seek the wilderness, they could purge of the sediments of society and become new creatures. His appeite for wilderness knew no bounds: only malaria persuaded him to give up his hunt for the source of the amazon. He travelled to san francisco where he amidst the mountains his most powerful wriing was inspired. Most of muir ideas were variaions on the transcendentalists" staple theme: natural objects were the terrestrial manifestaions of god. Emerson (muir"s mentor) began to have diferent views: he said that the solitude in the wilderness was not good for muir.
