crucial quotes for my paper
The bulk of my paper, which is turning out slightly different than I originally discussed, can be summed up as a reaction to these two quotes:
* In her comprehensive work on Thoreau, Seeing New Worlds, Laura Dassow Walls summarizes the commandments of Humboldtian science as: explore, collect, measure, connect.
* In a letter to Jeanne Carr in 1866, John Muir wrote, "How intensely I desire to be a Humboldt!"
In my paper, these two quotes frame my argument of the early Muir as a Humboldtian scientist, continuing a trend that essentially Emerson and Thoreau missed out on due to circumstances of age and/or death rather than fundamental philosophical or scientific disagreements.
* In her comprehensive work on Thoreau, Seeing New Worlds, Laura Dassow Walls summarizes the commandments of Humboldtian science as: explore, collect, measure, connect.
* In a letter to Jeanne Carr in 1866, John Muir wrote, "How intensely I desire to be a Humboldt!"
In my paper, these two quotes frame my argument of the early Muir as a Humboldtian scientist, continuing a trend that essentially Emerson and Thoreau missed out on due to circumstances of age and/or death rather than fundamental philosophical or scientific disagreements.
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