Henry David Thoreau once said “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Thoreau was a big naturalist and was a big advocate of nature. Thoreau wrote an essay called Walden which exemplifies his love of nature and his devotion to writing about nature. In particular, chapter twelve of Walden called, “Brute Neighbors”, shows Thoreau's interest in nature and how much purer nature is then humans and their destructive ways. The whole chapter is an allegory of how unnecessary and damaging human war is. In the beginning, Thoreau talks about watching and observing different animals and their motions, buy suddenly, he recalls two ants, one black and one red, fighting. Thoreau then goes into deep detail about the ants fight, how they fought and who was losing and who was winning. He then connects the ants to humans by correlating the red ants with republicans and the black ants with imperialists and the ant war with the great Trojan War. Thoreau concludes the piece by saying that the ants are fighting for a principle and that he feels like he was watching an actual war when he was …show more content…
With the ants war, he was “excited and harrowed” (442). Thoreau felt that nature is above humans and society today. When he says that “In wildness is the preservation of the world” he means that in the wild is where the real world is. In the wild there is no pettiness that humans have, and that nature is pure. Also, everything humans need comes out of the wild; trees for paper and houses, food, safety. Humans need nature to survive, and they need to stop messing around with nature. Humans have destroyed the world and nature with pollution of all kinds, literally and figuratively. Thoreau wants people to get back to their roots, and to stop fighting over stupid things and just become authentic again and realize how important nature actually is to