The world was altered, too; and as I stood at my mother's grave, I could hardly realize that I was the same thoughtless, happy creature, whose cheeks she so often kissed in an excess of tenderness.
She loved her mother dearly, but she was rather a thoughtless girl; so she did not even help Mrs. Brown to pull off her boots, which were quite wet with melted snow.
Besides capturing some of the changing sentiments regarding our relation to nature, the sense of disconnect and the longing for an environment undefined by rampant industry and thoughtless modernity.