Could someone me with a couple english 1 questions? 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.

choose two of the following phrases muir uses in his writing about the calypso borealis and explain how these words reveal his attitude about nature.

botanising in glorious freedom

rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty

revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods

glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog

i answered this already but wanted to know how someone else would and how you would improve my answer.

These two phrases show how Muir feels about nature. We can tell that Muir feels pleasure when he is surrounded by nature. We know this because many of the words he uses have positive connotations (glorious, freedom, wealth, strength, beauty). We also know that he feels free when he is in nature, and that this feeling has a good impact on him. Finally, we can see that it makes him happy (rejoicing) to admire all the qualities (wealth, strength and beauty) that nature displays.

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.