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A 3 page essay that discusses Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking,” in which he writes that “in Wilderness is the preservation of the World” (Thoreau). In making this statement, Thoreau refers to qualities that reside in wilderness that he believes to be essential to the continued vigor of human society. These words are profound and carry great import, particularly for contemporary American society, which no longer faces the challenges of wilderness that forged the character of our ancestors. No additional sources cited.
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reside in wilderness that he believes to be essential to the continued vigor of human society. These words are profound and carry great import, particularly for contemporary American society, which
no longer faces the challenges of wilderness that forged the character of our ancestors. Thoreau points out that the "founders of every state" that has risen to be
a world power has "drawn their nourishment and vigor from a...wild source," and that the fable of Romulus and Remus has symbolic significance as all "Our ancestors were savages" (Thoreau).
In other words, Thoreau argues, in other words, that it is precisely the challenges of a wilderness, i.e., being suckled by the wolf, that gives a society vigor and provides
needed nourishment. He says that the Roman Empire fell because the "children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf," and this factor turned them from rugged individuals into
slothful dilettantes, allowing them to be "conquered and displaced by the children of the northern forests" (invading Germans) who were nourished by the challenges of living in a wilderness (Thoreau).
Thoreau goes on to delineate further the virtues that are instilled in human beings by being exposed to hardship and the challenges inherent in survival in a wilderness. The
requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" (Thoreau). He argues that life lived in the wild creates
a kinship with nature. He writes that he would have "every man so much like a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of nature, that his very
person should thus sweetly advertise our senses of his presence, and remind us of those parts of nature which he most haunts" (Thoreau). By this romantic description, Thoreau is saying
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