What is William Cronon's argument in Chapter 1 "The View from Walden?"

What is William Cronon's argument in Chapter 1 "The View from Walden?"

Here Cronon emphasizes that measuring human impact on the environment requires an awareness that environments inevitably change even without human input.

the influence of daoism, buddhism, and legalism on chinese culture. unlike confucianism, daoism looked to nature rather than human beings as the source of morality. according to laozi, human society has to conform to the dao (the way), or the essential unifying element of all that is. some interpret dao as nature.

i believe the answer would be 1.