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WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Read the excerpt from John Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question. [1] After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion. [2] The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt. [3] But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower … In a paragraph of 3–5 sentences, explain how Muir views nature. Support your answer with two examples from the passage. Explain how each example reveals his view of nature.

Answer 1

Answer:

When reading paragraphs 3 and 4 Muir uses many different words to show his views on nature. He has a positive view towards nature as he uses words such as "beautiful Calypso" "Cried for joy" "simple purity" and "flower people."  Each of these words show a positive view towards nature as they contain words such as "beautiful" or "joy." He then says in paragraph 4 "It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts." He is showing how such frail and lovely plants can have such a power over human feelings. He has many more views on nature and even shows in later paragraphs how other people might feel. He shares many of his views on nature throughout his story and makes it as perfect as can be.

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Answer 2

The passage tells us about John Muir's view of nature. It expresses the love of the writer for the beautiful flora of the environment.

What is Muir's view of nature?

From the passage we can realise the extensive love of the writer for the beautiful nature. He was a person who loved exploring nature on solo trips. He loved the lakes, the swamps, the flowers and what not.

He also had a great yearning of discovering flowers like Calypso borealis. He liked taking up different challenges.

What are the examples from the passage?

1. Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty.
2. I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through.

Therefore, these examples reveal the view of writer about the nature.

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