When I was younger, I took a field trip to Claytor Lake State Park with my English class. That morning I was so excited to get some fresh air at a park I had never been to before. After the long bus ride over there, we got in groups and started to learn different things about the park. We went to many stations that day but my favorite station was the Surroundings Station. The Surroundings Station was a station where we listened and focused on what we could see or hear around us. It was very refreshing to have time to look around and enjoy nature. It was late summer, early fall and the leaves on the trees were just starting to turn colors. As the cold breeze stung my face, I focused on what I heard. Immediately, I started to hear the joyful …show more content…
In the passage, The Key to a Healthy Habitat, the author says, "However, removal of the wolves led to huge increases in the populations of animals that survive by grazing on vegetation. The animals ate so much of the plant life that many plant species were reduced in number. These sentences make the readers realize how serious this problem is. For example, many people throughout the world feel stressed or overworked, whether it be a student in school, or an adult at their job. Nature is one of the many ways people can feel relaxed or find peace in their crazy life. Humans aren't the only things that benefit from nature. Animals are also in need of nature, whether it be for food, shelter, or a place to reproduce. Many different animals need nature so they can survive. When we cut down trees or contaminate the water, it not only affects the air quality but it also gives the animals a higher risk for extinction. Another way animals can be extinct is if we kill all of their prey and they have nothing else to eat. Us as humans mess up the world without knowing it everyday. We as humans should protect the environment instead of using resources from it for our
The bond between humans and nature, it is fascinating to see how us has humans and nature interact with each other and in this case the essay The Heart’s Fox by Josephine Johnson is an example of judging the unknown of one's actions. She talks about a fox that had it's life taken as well as many others with it, the respect for nature is something that is precious to most and should not be taken advantage of. Is harming animals or any part of nature always worth it? I see this text as a way of saying that we must be not so terminate the life around us. Today I see us a s experts at destroying most around us and it's sad to see how much we do it and how it's almost as if it's okay to do and sadly is see as it nature itself hurts humans unintentionally
He is unable to understand why they can’t leave nature alone. His frustration stems from the fact that so much valuable land is being destroyed, to accommodate the ways of the lazy. It seems as though he believes that people who are unwilling to enjoy nature as is don’t deserve to experience it at all. He’s indirectly conveying the idea that humans who destroy nature are destroying themselves, as nature is only a mechanism that aids the society. In Desert Solitaire Abbey reminds the audience, of any age and year of the significance of the wild, enlightening and cautioning the human population into consciousness and liability through the use of isolation as material to ponder upon and presenting judgments to aid sheltering of the nature he
At one point in our lives as human beings we began to draw mental lines between ourselves and nature. This is something that has gradually been increasing throughout their years. Most people do not seem to notice all of these constant changes simply because we are used to the type of world we live in now. I believe that in order for somebody to understand what's happening these negative changes need to affect us as individuals. For example, many people don't realize cutting down trees to build businesses will eventually cause the world to be unsustainable. Nature is something very necessary. "Wilderness" in old English was something that had its own will, just like you mentioned in paragraph three. The Wild is a place where wild undomesticated animals should be allowed to roam
Man has destroyed nature, and for years now, man has not been living in nature. Instead, only little portions of nature are left in the world
Aldo Leopold’s essay, “Thinking Like a Mountain” shines light on a prominent issue amongst the ecosystem concerning the importance of a single organism. Leopold attempts to help the reader understand the importance of all animals in the ecosystem by allowing a wolf, deer, and a mountain to represent the ecosystem and how changes amongst them cause adverse effects on each other. Leopold recounts of the killing of a wolf and seeing a "fierce green fire" die in its eyes, this became a transformational moment in his life causing him to rethink the beliefs he had grown up with. By connecting the wolf’s death to the health of the mountain he was inspired to promote the idea that all predators matter to the ecosystem. He believed then that all native organisms are critical to the health of the land, if any change occurs in one part of the circuit, many parts will have to adjust to it and if something is removed the consequence can be detrimental. The essay highlights the idea that all living things on earth have a purpose and that everything is interdependent of each other.
In order words, Nature is beautiful in the more simple way, but at the same time if nature starts to recognize danger or the feeling of dying, she will defend herself. Humanity need the use of ethics and humility at the same time in order to have a good ecological environment. During “Thinking Like A Mountain” Leopold describes the intricate of a mountain’s biomes and the consequences of disturbing their ecological balances, describe specifically with a wolf and a deer. Leopold use the wolf and the deer as an example of how human treats nature. Referring to the wolf way of think, “he has not learned to think like a mountain” like humanity has not learned to think in the way that Mother Nature want us to think (140). Leopold describes how “a land, ethic, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and… Reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land” giving an exact example by having a group A and a group B (258). Group A describes what one needs when on the other hand, group B “worries about a whole series of biotic side-issues” (259). By having this two groups being described, humanity today is like the group A, when one really need to change their way of mind and start to be like the group B. Society needs to use the ethics with humility in order to conserve the health of the natural
Although the book, somewhere, looks at the environment through a human centric approach. This can be conspicuously noticed in chapter 8: And No Bird Sings where Carson writes about the disappearance of robin and complaints made by people regarding the lack of birds ornamenting the trees and the beauty that it brings along. The chapter falls short of emphasizing that elements in nature belong not just to please the human eye but to be part of the intricate web of nature. Some parts of nature may not be aesthetically appealing but still plays a significant role in the ecosystem it belongs to. Carson does provide this perspective in the chapters discussing weed but fails to do so in chapter
In Thinking Like a Mountain, the author, Aldo Leopold, writes of the importance of wildlife preservation through examples of the symbiotic relationship of animals and plant-life with a mountain. He asks the reader to perceive the processes of a mountainous environment in an unusual way. Aldo Leopold wants the reader to "think" like a mountain instead of thinking of only the immediate, or as the hunter did. Taking away one feature of an ecosystem may eventually destroy everything else that that environment is composed of. Nature and wildness is essential for the well being of life on this earth.
The first and second part, taking a natural history approach to the subject of relationships between humans and nature, discuss his experiences on the family farm in Wisconsin and other various portions of the world. Furthermore, the detailed accounts of various flora and fauna species, how harmful farming has been to the soil and the destruction of nature from recreational activities, introduce Leopold’s argument that humans, even unconsciously, have been harming nature for a multitude of years. The third part, applying a philosophical approach, takes these events into account and analyzes the various destructions that humans have caused. In the chapter “Thinking Like A Mountain,” Aldo Leopold recounts the hunting trip that he took part in when he was younger. As he watched the light fade from the Wolf’s eyes, his group of friends believed that they had helped the deer population’s chance of survival. Instead, by destroying the top predator of the mountain, the deer population grew out of control and harmed the mountain’s ecological environment. From this example, Leopold uses the situation of the she wolf to explain to his audience that man’s influence in nature, no matter how beneficial it is to one species’ survival, always has consequences to
However they present this feeling on opposite sides of the spectrum. Annie Dillard presents this position in more of an optimistic point of view. She talks about how her encounter with nature has made her life better to live for herself and how it can help us as well. However, Mark Twain shows a more negative connotation to his presentation. In Twain’s essay he shows how we have taken nature for granted and how man is practically the worst being on the planet. Both of these authors connect to the real world today. In Annie Dillard's case, which is a more positive light on how we treat nature to learn and grow, we have begun to embark on a huge project to preserve all natural parks. We have started to begin our process to connect with nature more so we can begin to learn from it and utilize it for its true meaning and have a great life. The real world, unfortunately, still connects to Mark Twain's essay as well. Humans today still disrespect nature to a great extent. People today still hunt for game and leave animals behind to rot or even worse they don't finish the job and leave an animal behind to suffer. We also have polluted our world an extreme amount. Factories around the world have made the air worse and worse for not only us to breath in, but animals around us. However, the world is changing more so for the better than the worse which is a great thing for us to be proud of
In the first paragraph it explains how once people try to come into nature, nature comes right there way to make a statement like you really want to be here? "Nature comes right inside, as if to prove some kind of point" (Allen 1). In the ending of the essay it says how many people will try to hide and get away from the different animals or insects that are apart of nature only to find more where you are hiding, showing that you can never truly get from nature. "People take themselves upstairs to their bedroom, lie down, and stare at the ceiling, hoping that if they focus all their thoughts and energy on the racoons going away, maybe, maybe this will
Leopold argues that, “the disappearance of plant and animal species without visible cause, despite efforts to protect them, and the irruption of others as pests despite efforts to control them, must, in the absence of simpler explanations, be regarded as symptoms of land sickness in the land organism” (Leopold, 1968, p.194). To Leopold, these issues are occurring too often and treatments for these issues, though necessary, are not cures by any means as they do not treat the root cause of the problem. Leopold believes that the cause of erosion is not fixed through the building of check dams and terraces and though refuges and hatcheries maintain the supply of game and fish, this does not explain why the supply fails to maintain itself (Leopold, 1968, p.195). Mankind’s efforts to fix these problems do not work as the healthy remnants of wilderness need to be studied in order to know how these areas maintain themselves, but most of the remnants are too small to hold their normality. Leopold also brings awareness to the issues affecting the remaining wilderness like the building of infrastructure, the participation in motorized recreational activities, farming and superficial conservation efforts, and the decreasing populations of large carnivores. He argues that predator control is a subtle way of invading the remaining wilderness, and it works like this: larger carnivores are “cleaned out of a wilderness area in the interest of big-game management. The big-game herds then increase to the point of over browsing the range. Hunters must then be encouraged to harvest the surplus, but modern hunters refuse to operate far from a car; hence a road must be built to provide access to the surplus game” (Leopold, 1968,
Today we live in a world that is required to constantly advance; there is no room for digression. Society has become extremely industrialized and in that, the people have forgot about the value of nature. In William Wordsworth’s “The World is too Much With Us” the speaker illustrates a huge problem in society with nature being neglected. In the poem it is expressed that nature has been forgotten about. In that time people were advancing and leaving nature behind. Which is why nature is no longer apart of society due to the fact of industrialization. Nature is now an outcast because it isn’t treated the way it was before. Which has led to further destruction of nature.
Once upon a time, I saw the world like I thought everyone should see it, the way I thought the world should be. I saw a place where there were endless trials, where you could try again and again, to do the things that you really meant to do. But it was Jeffy that changed all of that for me. If you break a pencil in half, no matter how much tape you try to put on it, it'll never be the same pencil again. Second chances were always second chances. No matter what you did the next time, the first time would always be there, and you could never erase that. There were so many pencils that I never meant to break, so many things I wish I had never said, wish I had never done. Most of them were small, little things, things that you could try to glue back together, and that would be good enough. Some of them were different though, when you broke the pencil, the lead inside it fell out, and broke too, so that no matter which way you tried to arrange it, they would never fit together and become whole again. Jeff would have thought so too. For he was the one that made me see what the world really was. He made the world into a fairy tale, but only where your happy endings were what you had to make, what you had to become to write the words, happily ever after. But ever since I was three, I remember wishing I knew what the real story was.
I have not had many meaningful moments with nature, even though I have many encounters with it. But the encounter that is the most prevalent in my mind is my vacation at Willow Lake, Minnesota. Here I had encounters with nature on the water, out bike riding, and watching a storm come in the distance.