Last Thursday we talked about Transcendentalism and how nature is important to humans. We continued with the ideas from Tuesday, when we spent the day outside. We began by reading each other's journal entries about a concept of nature. All the ones I read were really well-written and discussed things like mountains and trees and talked about them in metaphorical terms. Personally, I wrote about aardvarks.
After that, the class watched video clips from a Ken Burns documentary, which discussed the influence of a few important transcendentalists on the development of the national parks system. I found John Muir's role very interesting, and I was amazed at what an influence on man could have in sparking the establishment of the park and in the preservation of the area.
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