Question

Read the excerpt from Walden.

The repose is never complete. The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature’s watchmen—links which connect the days of animated life. What natural phenomenon is referred to in this excerpt?
a. the phases of the moonb. the food chainc. the rotation of the earthd. the metamorphosis of animals

Answer 1

B. The food chain

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Answer 2

Letter b. the food chainc.

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Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854)

by Henry David Thoreau

Walden, or, Life in the Woods is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) a manual for self-reliance. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year, and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.