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The Research Of The John Muir's Ecology Literature Thoughts

Posted on:2019-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S D GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330566459769Subject:Literature and art
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John Muir is an outstanding naturalist in the U.S.He has been known as “the salesman of nature”,“the sage of the American Conservation Movement”,and “the father of the National Park”.His cultural heritage provided future generations with precious treasure both in spirits and behaviors.By his practical action,he experienced the beauty of wilderness,practiced his own ecological literature thoughts,but also suffered from the gradual destruction of the nature.John Muir influenced the world with his literary creation and practical actions as well as actively lobbied the government to participate in the protection of the natural ecological environment.He has made the greatest contribution to literature by his creation of dozens of influential natural literature works.From his works of natural literature,it is worth for us to explore more in depth.In diverse works,John Muir sincerely admired the beauty of the wild nature,which would arouse people's great attention and love to the wild nature and emotional abomination of the destroy to the naturally ecological environment;at the same time,he utilized his own practical actions to awaken people's ecological consciousness and actively promoted the government to involve in the effective action of the protection to the wild natural ecology.John Muir's ecological literary thought was mainly reflected in his works of natural literature.Ecological holism was one of the main ideas to follow through his whole work,and the natural beauty of wilderness was the topic and important thought of his natural literature.He was not only a great writer who spoke for nature,but also a great actor who practiced his ecological ideas with his practical actions.With his actively advocating and promoting,the agency of the naturally ecological protection established “the sierra club” that would collect a group of people who keenly loved natural ecology and devoted themselves to protecting natural ecology to practice their ecological literature thoughts by the practical action.With the promotion of John Muir,the National Park was successfully established,which featured the form of the state institutions to protect natural ecology,and its influences spread far in other countries and regions of the world,inspiring and influencing the governments in those countries and regions to take the same measures to protect the natural ecological environment.It can be said that John Muir has made outstanding contributions to the protection of the world's natural ecological environment.John Muir's literature works featured by the beautiful writing,highlighting the natural intrinsic value,so it led people to update thinking about the relationship between human and nature to awaken people to reacquaint nature and to arouse people's ecological consciousness awakening.A coin has two sides,so does the ecological literature thought in John Muir's works of natural literature.There are the right and proper aspects in John Muir's works and the limitations of era localization.However,we focus much on exploring the valuable aspects that will always be useful for us to correctly handle the relationship between human and nature and to better protect the natural ecological environment resources.More significantly,it will provide especially useful reference for the construction of today's ecological consciousness and ecological civilization.
Keywords/Search Tags:John Muir, ecological literature, research of thoughts
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