Read the excerpt from Life on the Mississippi. The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book-a book that was a dead language to the uneducated
passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it
uttered them with a voice.
What does the imagery suggest about the narrator's relationship with his environment?
He is frightened by his surroundings.
O He is very knowledgeable of nature's workings.
O He admires nature, but he sometimes feels lonely.
He considers his relationship with nature highly intimate.