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Essay / The theme of education in 'The Huckleberry's' - 1043
During the process, I buy everything necessary for the product. Companies will have “a monopoly on the shore” (32). Taking away the beauty of nature to do what suits their wallet. When companies find a piece of nature that makes them money, they buy the land, strip it of its beauty and turn it into private property. Taking a part of nature that was once open and free to the people who lived in the region. In the words of Thoreau: “Most men, it seems to me, care nothing for nature, and would sell their shares in all its beauty, during their whole lives, for a declared and not very large sum” ( 32). He knew in his time that the average man does not care about the beauty of nature. That if they could sell nature for a quick dollar, most would. This ties in with his thoughts on private property in nature. Nature will be devoured for the means for Americans to make money. He wants nature to be made public to everyone, so that one person or one origin cannot keep it and what they want to themselves, which would ruin its beauty. This is the same thinking that underlies the creation of public parks, whether national, state or