As a Transcendentalist, Thoreau would be?
1 Answer
Eager to see more people get back to nature.
Explanation:
Thoreau was not interested in technological progress or impediments of nature to it. Nor did he "leave nature alone". It was in how he thought we should use and relate to nature in a more simplistic approach that defined his writing.
For many of the transcendentalists the term “transcendentalism” represented nothing so technical as an inquiry into the presuppositions of human experience, but a new confidence in and appreciation of the mind's powers, and a modern, non-doctrinal spirituality.
Nature comes to even more prominence in Walden than in Emerson's Nature, which it followed by eighteen years. Nature now becomes particular: this tree, this bird, this state of the pond on a summer evening or winter morning become Thoreau's subjects. Thoreau is receptive. He finds himself “suddenly neighbor to” rather than a hunter of birds (W, 85); and he learns to dwell in a house that is no more and no less than a place where he can properly sit.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
