We are so great at understanding nature

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, he states, "I was in haste to buy it, before the proprietor finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the hallow apple trees, and grubbing up some young birches which had sprung up in the pasture, or in short, had made any more improvements." This passage lead me to think of how Americans today are never satisfied with what they have and often feel the incessant urge to correct the things they view as dysfunctional. To Thoreau, nature was where one could find himself/herself and determine if they were actually living. Today, I feel like most people do not view nature with the same sense that Thoreau did. Now, people view nature as conservationism or the place you go to for a quick summer camping trip. We no longer appreciate nature because we are the modern proprietors and we outweigh the modern Thoreaus'. We do not retreat into nature to reestablish our lives. We are too busy making improvements in nature by destroying it in order to make money.