A Nera View Of The High Lana Analysis
“TO abandon your comfortable home, buy the mules and supplies, find the adventures fulfilling beyond your wildest conception, snag it in word and paints, then disappear before your twenty-fist birthday, requires a kind of genius.”
Muir’s wrintings are the expressions of a desire, very ancient.
“ But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgment forbid as it may”. This excerpt from “a Nera View of the High Sierra” is reminiscent of his desire/ commitment for a quest. A commitment that Thoureau before him possessed.
Bunyannn’s Christian also with a fierce desire to get away, voluntarily/ forcibly shuts off his ears so that he couldn’t hear his children and wife’s cries and walks away into the …show more content…
Thoureau’s thinking remains human, nothing else. In a way it is pathetic. HE cannot experience it in any other form. “ Do not all strange sounds thrill us as human, till we have learned to refer themto their proper source?” This is the area, the area of the boundary that holds so much thrill for Thoureau. Thoureau walks this area.
Consider this statement (which becomes a question to us) by Thoureau, “ I want you to perceive the mystery of the bream”. It is a sybolic experience which can never substutute the original thing. It is never adequate to the task of conveying one’s experience.
Coming back to the theme of walking, it is imperative to remind oneself of the goal of Thoureau’s practice, one of the central themes of which is a systematic unlearning.
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence...It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than
Muir’s wrintings are the expressions of a desire, very ancient.
“ But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgment forbid as it may”. This excerpt from “a Nera View of the High Sierra” is reminiscent of his desire/ commitment for a quest. A commitment that Thoureau before him possessed.
Bunyannn’s Christian also with a fierce desire to get away, voluntarily/ forcibly shuts off his ears so that he couldn’t hear his children and wife’s cries and walks away into the …show more content…
Thoureau’s thinking remains human, nothing else. In a way it is pathetic. HE cannot experience it in any other form. “ Do not all strange sounds thrill us as human, till we have learned to refer themto their proper source?” This is the area, the area of the boundary that holds so much thrill for Thoureau. Thoureau walks this area.
Consider this statement (which becomes a question to us) by Thoureau, “ I want you to perceive the mystery of the bream”. It is a sybolic experience which can never substutute the original thing. It is never adequate to the task of conveying one’s experience.
Coming back to the theme of walking, it is imperative to remind oneself of the goal of Thoureau’s practice, one of the central themes of which is a systematic unlearning.
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence...It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than