Meaning Of Nature In 'Walden' By Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau always knew that nature had a deeper meaning than what is just on the surface. He knew Walden Pond not just on the surface but he dove into Walden Pond and found greater meanings. Thoreau was a Transcendentalist, who believed that there was this higher meaning behind nature. He believed that one could find God in the nature that was around. And Throughout Walden, Henry David Thoreau observes nature as this element that has a greater meaning and that meaning is that new life and rebirth can be found in and all around nature. Thus Thoreau shows and displays how nature is a way of rebirth and new life by using and examining the morning as a metaphor. In chapter 2, Thoreau makes a metaphor that the mornings in nature are similar to the new beginning of a life. He purposes that the
During this chapter Thoreau is examining all the nature and life around him. He notices a few things about how it is thawing out and becoming vibrant and new again. Thoreau makes several comments about how the nature around him is becoming alive again, almost as if it is a human entering into a new life. For example, he says that, “If you look closely you observe that first there pushes forward from the thawing mass a stream of softened sand with a drop-like point, like the ball of the finger, feeling its way slowly and blindly downward…” (249). This quote is just a glimpse of detail that Thoreau goes into in showing how the nature thaws out into a new life. He goes into more detail about how nature is almost like a human gaining life back into itself, almost a rebirth. Thoreau makes a huge comment about the scenery of the nature around him during this time. He says that, “Walden was dead and is alive again” (253). This yet again shows how nature shows how new life can be found. Thoreau himself feels this new life when the spring time comes