After reading Cronon\u2019s Nature\u2019s Metropolis, <\/em>I now see the big connection between the city and country.\u00a0 Throughout my life, I have always appreciated the city lifestyle; I loved how everything was really fast-paced and how all local industries were just right around the corner from where you needed them to be.\u00a0 As far as the development of the United States, however, I never looked at how important the rural countryside played in the development of the industrious city side we see today.\u00a0 The way how Cronon first described Chicago was depressing, when he was talking about the gloomy atmosphere and noting how \u201cChicago represented all that was most unnatural about human life.\u00a0 Crowded and artificial, it was a cancer on an otherwise beautiful landscape (Cronon 7.\u201d)\u00a0 Referring back to the negative aspects, it is amazing to look at the sacrifices that were made for the development of such prosperous cities, including Chicago.\u00a0 Nature was truly in the hands of the people at the time and it still is today.\u00a0 Even though nature eventually became limited, society in the city was able to prosper; Garland stated, in his metaphor, how the city was similar to the ocean, where fresh streams would flow into and become salt (Cronon 13.)\u00a0 What Garland meant to say was that in order for society, which is the city in this case, to meet new horizons, then sacrifices must be made.\u00a0 In @mvanderdussen\u2019s post, it reflects Popkin\u2019s work on how history is a complicated field of study, looking at the past from new angles.\u00a0 By looking at the past from new angles, we are able to experience what drove these people to do what they did in tearing up what used to be a beautiful piece of land and transform it the industrious society that we all know today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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