Question

What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?
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 tha

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

@.TH3_MONST3R

Answer 3

help

Answer 4

@sahrya

Answer 5

@Kayla_Is_Smart

Answer 6

He was speaking in poetic, spiritual terms about his affection for the ecology and humanity’s earth connection, garnering a large and varied readership.
http://www.biography.com/people/john-muir-9417625#synopsis

Answer 7

Quotations:
Select phrases Muir uses to describe nature in the paragraph.

Answer 8

@sahrya

Answer 9

oh ok :/

Answer 10

give meh a sec pls

Answer 11

k

Answer 12

hurry please

Answer 13

r u still there @sahrya

Answer 14

@sasogeek

Answer 15

@paki

Answer 16

im gonna get a friend 2 help @kelsie1026

Answer 17

@aryandecoolest

Answer 18

please

Answer 19

can you help @aryandecoolest

Answer 20

@.TH3_MONST3ER.

Answer 21

@.THE_MONST3R.

Answer 22

@.TH3_M0NST3R.

Answer 23

Muir is thrilled to be exploring in nature. The words "rejoicing, reveling, and glorying" are words that show his enjoyment of nature and how much he appreciates it

Answer 24

thx

Answer 25

anytime ) @kelsie1026