Ellen Crabbe- John Adams = Environmentalist?

In a previous class we discussed Gatta's Book and read John Adam's take on nature. My preconceived notion was that John Adams would speak of nature in relation to the government. This is mostly due to the fact that I and many others in this world view him as a politician. Anything else to the contrary is secondary. Believing that John Adams and the rest of the founding fathers did have religious conviction it was quite easy for me to believe what he had written. He did ultimately say that nature was of its own inherent value because God created it. Because of this statement I would like to believe that John Adams believed that nature was entirely a sacred place. Gatta said that Adams was not greener than Emerson and that is very evident we read and discussed. Although I still hold on to the fact that Adams was a politician, I also believe now that he was an environmentalist. He may not have been one in the extreme form as Thoreau- spending months in a home by himself in the wilderness- but he did state his convictions about nature. To me he might have been a little greener than Emerson.