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work_gtv4qywxljczfeocvhyb37mf7y	Reinaldo Francisco Silva	Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Immigration, Ecocriticism, and Otherness	2020.0	12	.pdf	application/pdf	9458	607	65	Thoreau's concern for nature and environmental issues, too, will assist me in ascertaining how these matters evolved, were modified by, adjusted to and updated by immigrants in North America when growing With some of these Thoreauvian concerns as a backdrop, let us now ascertain how specific groups of immigrants hailing from agrarian Old World societies dealt with nature, farming, and gardening – the Portuguese It was actually the California dairy industry than farming, New England cottage gardening or orchardgrowing that brought about the relative wealth of the Portuguese in the United States. For these Portuguese immigrants caught in this industrial, back-breaking and alienating web, retrieving their dignity and ancestral culture via the ethnic garden was their way of becoming, in Emerson's words, quintessential aspects of immigrant life in Portuguese American communities in the United States? brought from the Azores, in other Portuguese-American communities, gardening provided food in times 	./cache/work_gtv4qywxljczfeocvhyb37mf7y.pdf	./txt/work_gtv4qywxljczfeocvhyb37mf7y.txt