Cecelia Tichi argues that the Puritans came to New England in the seventeenth century with a vision of environmental reform rooted in a vivid apocalyptic hope. They expected that the Christian millennium would originate in the New World and “that God intended Puritans to bear major responsibility for its site preparation.”58 Writers like Edward Johnson thus delighted in the fact that a “remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness” was being turned into “a second England for fertilness.” He saw it becoming “the wonder of the world,” with “neer a thousand acres of land planted for
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