The Art of Seeing Things
"Do they see anything they did not come out to see?" John Burroughs wonders about those who discourse pleasantly about birds and flowers. He posits that an increased awareness and willingness to see the natural world-curiosity inspired by love-leads one to perceive subtleties missed by inferior expectations. He attests that anyone might develop
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A great start in responding both to Burroughs and some of the larger issues of thinking about environmental writing. You get to some ideas at the end that sound like the beginnings of a fascinating ecocritical piece (maybe even a book)--seeing our office spaces or other interiors from an environmental perspective. Thoreau gets into that in "House-warming." I wonder if you see Thoreau's environmental vision so far as offering more of the us/it perspective you see in Burroughs, or something different.
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