Both Uses of
environment
in
Leaves of Grass
- The General watch'd them from this hill, They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment, Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle, But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!†
Chpt 21 *
- The battle-bulletin, The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment, The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism, In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses for breastworks, The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(environment as in: the environmental movement) the natural world (life, air, water, land...) -- often used in reference to the impact of human technology