Write a summary of the following selections and identify a direct quote that you feel best expresses its main idea.
“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)
Live life only dealing with the essentials.
Quote:
“Sounds” (234)
People need to interact with people to be entertained, but he entertains himself by walking through nature. He would take in the sounds of nature.
Quote: “I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad
“Brute Neighbors” (235)
The ant’s life is as hard as a human. There are comparisons between the war between ants and the war between humans. We share the same brutality as the ants at war.
Quote: “I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black.
“The Pond in Winter” (237)
In the beginning, the narrator describes how we can either contemplate nature and not find the answers, or we could go out, experience nature, and have our questions answered. The narrator respects the men with fishing reels because they don’t care what authority has to say and they experience nature first-hand. At the end, it describes how nature is carried out through man. Beauty and life is on the surface, but also under the surface.
Quote: “But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips.”
“Spring” (238)
During Spring, nature renews itself.
Quote: “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
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