Question

English helps please

Answer 1

@Jbaena1

Answer 2

Don't you have more information that i can read? I don't know about Muir?

Answer 3

After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion.

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 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.

But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.

It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts. This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings excepting, perhaps, Emerson and one or two others. When I was leaving the University, Professor J.D. Butler said, "John, I would like to know what becomes o you, and I wish you would write me, say once a year, so I may keep you in sight." I wrote to the Professor, telling him about this meeting with Calypso, and he sent the letter to an Eastern newspaper [The Boston Recorder] with some comments of his own. These, as far as I know, were the first of my words that appeared in print.

How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know. Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care. At length I saw maple woods on a hill and found a log house. I was gladly received. "Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp. What were ye doin' there?" etc. "Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found." When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "It's god's mercy ye ever got out."

Oftentimes I had to sleep without blankets, and sometimes without supper, but usually I had no great difficulty in finding a loaf of bread here and there at the houses of the farmer settlers in the widely scattered clearings. With one of these large backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods—were welcomed as friends.

Answer 4

Paragraph 1
What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?
Muir lists the species he encountered on his trip to study plants in their natural region.

Answer 5

Quotations:
"rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty"
"reveling in their flowers"
"glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm"

Answer 6

How do his words show his relationship with nature?

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

Answer 7

Paragraph 2:
Muir describes his journey as difficult having to cross streams ,wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through”, until he encountered the rarest and most beautiful flowers of all, the Calypso Borealis.

Answer 8

Quotations:
The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis

Answer 9

How do his words show his relationship with nature?
Muir describes the flower as being thE most beautiful of the flowering plants

Answer 10

I hoped o helped a bit? But i'm in class haha.

Answer 11

so you cant help anymore?

Answer 12

Not at the moment :C

Answer 13

ok thx tho

Answer 14

Ill come back

Answer 15

ok

Answer 16

@Elsa213 is here hopefully she can help

Answer 17

@Elsa213

Answer 18

3rd paragraph:

But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.


`seemed most bewildering and discouraging`
`Beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream`

As the narrator soon becomes discouraged, he notices a flower which soon makes him joyful.

Answer 19

so
What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph? But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.

Quotations:
Select phrases Muir uses to describe nature in the paragraph.= seemed most bewildering and discouraging
Beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream

How do his words show his relationship with nature? As the narrator soon becomes discouraged, he notices a flower which soon makes him joyful.

Answer 20

i need the answer to this for paragraph 2 and 3 now
How does the paragraph illustrate naturalism

Answer 21

Paragraph 3:
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The narrator's words show how he became discouraged but with the beauty of a calypso, he became joyful.

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It explains that even in the most unpleasant spots, there can be something beautiful.

Answer 22

where do i put this

But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.


seemed most bewildering and discouraging
Beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream

As the narrator soon becomes discouraged, he notices a flower which soon makes him joyful.

Answer 23

Paragraph 2:
The narrator uses words like `difficult`,`struggling`,`drooping` and`fallen trees` which illustrates a disastrous image of nature.

Answer 24

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What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?
Muir notes how a flower encouraged him to continue his adventure.

Quotations:
"seemed most bewildering and discouraging"
"Beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream"

How do his words show his relationship with nature?

The narrator's words show how he became discouraged but with the beauty of a calypso, he became joyful.

Answer 25

thx next is paragraph 4

Answer 26

Paragraph 4:
It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts. This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings excepting, perhaps, Emerson and one or two others. When I was leaving the University, Professor J.D. Butler said, "John, I would like to know what becomes o you, and I wish you would write me, say once a year, so I may keep you in sight." I wrote to the Professor, telling him about this meeting with Calypso, and he sent the letter to an Eastern newspaper [The Boston Recorder] with some comments of his own. These, as far as I know, were the first of my words that appeared in print.

Questions:

What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?
Muir explains how the flower was so meaningful and powerful.

Quotations:
"so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts."
"it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings..."

How do his words show his relationship with nature?

Muir was left astonished after viewing that flower and wanted to share this memory with as many people as he possibly could.

How does the paragraph illustrate naturalism?

Muir uses positive words such as `memorable`, `lovely` and `power over human hearts` which creates a positive illustration of nature.

Answer 27

OMG 2 more sooooo close

Answer 28

Paragraph 5:

How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know. Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care. At length I saw maple woods on a hill and found a log house. I was gladly received. "Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp. What were ye doin' there?" etc. "Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found." When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "It's god's mercy ye ever got out."

Questions:

What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?

Muir points out how the flower took away his suffering.

Quotations:

"Hunger and weariness vanished..."

Answer 29

How do his words show his relationship with nature?
Mui views the calypso flower as a powerful and meaningful flower.

Answer 30

Muir* e.e

Answer 31

Muir fills this paragraph with positive signs such as `powerful`.

Answer 32

LAST ONE YES LETS FINISH IT AND TAKE SOME TIME OFF !! :D :D

Answer 33

Paragraph 6:

Oftentimes I had to sleep without blankets, and sometimes without supper, but usually I had no great difficulty in finding a loaf of bread here and there at the houses of the farmer settlers in the widely scattered clearings. With one of these large backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods—were welcomed as friends.

Questions:

What does Muir accomplish in the paragraph?
Muir points out the changes the flower caused in his life.

Quotations:
"free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread."

How do his words show his relationship with nature?

Muir compares his feelings with nature when using terms like `free as the winds`.

How does the paragraph illustrate naturalism?

Once again, this creates a positive image when using the words `free` and `welcomed`.

Answer 34

Congratulations~

Answer 35

OMG THX SOOO MUCH

Answer 36

Ofc. ^.^