Examples of Naturalism in the following topics:
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- Naturalism was a literary movement that used realism to explore the effects of heredity and social environment on human character.
- Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism , a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.
- The term naturalism itself may have been used in this sense for the first time by Émile Zola.
- Another characteristic of naturalism is determinism, the opposite of the notion of free will.
- Equally, there tends to be in naturalist novels and stories a strong sense that nature is indifferent to human struggle.
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- During his second term, Theodore Roosevelt embraced legislation aimed at conserving the natural environment.
- During his second term, President Theodore Roosevelt embraced legislation aimed at conserving the natural environment.
- Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and historians largely consider him as the nation's first conservation president.
- By the time he left office in 1908, Roosevelt set aside more federal land, national parks, and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
- While Muir wanted nature preserved for the sake of beauty, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees. " In effect, Roosevelt's conservationism embodied the Progressive ideal of efficiency: to protect nature in order to render it serviceable to the needs and uses of man for successive generations.
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- Of all Roosevelt's achievements, he was proudest of his work in conservation of natural resources, and extending Federal protection to land and wildlife.
- Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and historians largely consider him to be the nation's first conservation President.
- By the time he left office in 1908, Roosevelt had set aside more federal land, national parks, and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
- In May 1908, Roosevelt sponsored the Conference of Governors held in the White House, with a focus on natural resources and their most efficient use.
- In effect, Roosevelt's conservationism embodied the Progressive ideal of efficiency: to protect nature in order to render it serviceable to the needs and uses of man for successive generations.
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- Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature.
- Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.
- Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
- His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore.
- He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.
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- Some effects were self-evident to attentive observers, however, and the rise of industrialization and urbanization did inspire a new appreciation for the natural world among some.
- Transcendentalism, an intellectual movement of the 1830s and 1840s, elevated nature in popular poems, stories, and essays of the time.
- Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau is best known for his work Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
- Thoreau also wrote on the subjects of natural history and philosophy and anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
- Thoreau's writings celebrated nature and a simple life and provided a critique of urban and industrial values.
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- Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both man and nature.
- Together with "Nature," these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.
- His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore.
- He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.
- In his essay "Nature," Emerson asserted that because God's presence is inherent in both humanity and nature, all people contain seeds of divinity.
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- Deism is a religious philosophy that holds that reason and observation of the natural world in a form other than organized religion can determine that the universe is the product of (an) intelligent creator(s).
- According to Deists, the creator rarely, if ever, either intervenes in human affairs or suspends the natural laws of the universe.
- Another major contributor to Deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible" of American deism in his Principles of Nature (1801) and attempted to organize Deism by forming the "Deistical Society of New York. "
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- Romanticism often involved a rapturous response to nature and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
- In his popular novel Last of the Mohicans, Cooper expressed romantic ideals about the relationship between men and nature.
- He is best known for his romantic-influenced essays such as “Nature” (1836) and “Self-Reliance" (1841).
- Washington Irving's writings, such as the Legends of Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow, contained romantic elements such as the celebration of nature and romantic virtues such as simplicity.
- In his popular novels, such as Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper expressed romantic ideals about the relationship between men and nature.
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- During the Quasi-War, Adams and Congress passed the Naturalization Act on June 18, 1798, as part of the broader Alien and Sedition Acts.
- The Naturalization Act increased the residency requirement for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from five to fourteen years.
- Rather than diminish the power of the opposing party, Federalists found that the Naturalization Act alienated their immigrant supporters, who began to turn toward the Democratic-Republicans.
- The inquisitorial nature of the proceedings, with tax assessors going to each home and counting windows, aroused strong opposition from the population.
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- The mild climate and abundant natural resources along the Pacific Coast of North America allowed a complex aboriginal culture to flourish.
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mild climate and abundant natural resources,
such as cedar and salmon, made possible the rise of a complex
aboriginal culture.
- This is what is known as
permaculture, or any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural
resources and enriches local ecosystems.
- Due to the abundance of natural
resources and the affluence of most Northwest tribes, there was plenty of
leisure time to create art.
- Examine how natural resources shaped the cultures of the Pacific Coast