Ralph Waldo Emerson's Silent Spring

The environment, it is the surrounding influential pieces in life that make life what it is. This makes it important for people to protect the environment and the ecosystems that make everyone’s home. In Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, she talks about the environment needing to be protected. Pesticides are a poison that is killing the planet as well as hurt the people who eat them. Degradation, or the degrading of anything; in this case it is the planet and the environment. Carson talks about stopping the practice of using poisons on the food and the suffering the different parts of American have to go through. “Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number

of them” (Carson 889).
Furthermore, Carson is right in the way that the environment has to be protected. Today, the ice caps are melting because of the carelessness the people have had to the earth. It is home, not just for a few, but for the entire planet of people and living organisms. Everyday a disaster happens “naturally” somewhere in the world. Yes, some of the disasters do happen because of an environment event. Though there are those event that are caused by the actions of the people. Like fires that burn down towns and all the live things and ecosystems around. When animals are transferred from one place to another it can overtake the environment and cause it to shut down totally. Pesticides need to stop being used because in the end it is not healthy for people to ingest and kills an abundance animals.
Equally important is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s, Nature, and how he sees the interaction of man and environment.

Emerson sees how most people see the environment for themselves when in fact it is for everyone. In this piece it is talked about how nature is a God made thing made for and to be protected by man. Man need the environment and nature to prosper and continue to grow and live on the planet. Actually, Emerson sees it as for a person to fully understand nature, they should detach from the world and society and live in solitary in the wild. People should gain an appreciation for the nature and multiple farms all around. To see nature as it once was sean as beautiful and something of a piece of art. Rather then now and how it is seen as dieing, owned, and for oneself. “Nature never wears a mean appearance”(Emerson

897).
Moreover, Emerson has a point that people should get to know nature for its beautiful scenery and ways.

Not just for their own use and as an owned piece of property. If people were to get to know nature and see if for what it really is, maybe better care would be taken. Maybe people would stop creating harmful inventions to the environment. Man and nature have gone back since the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of man. For man to prosper, the environment around them had to be full of nourishment and helpful food and shelter materials. All man had to do is figure out how to use these materials and then protect them. Natural materials are not everlasting. Sooner or later they will run out and then what, the ice caps melt more, or maybe more animals go extinct. Depending on the belief of one it could be argued god made the environment, r nature for man to love, protect, and use. All nature had to do is provide and be there when ever man needed it to

be.
As a matter of fact, Lewis Thomas’s, Natural Man, continues the talk about the environment and having to protect it. “It is hard enough to confront the environment options ahead, and the hard choices, but even harder when the price tags are so visible”(Thomas 915). Thomas talks about the price tags involved with the environment and how people treat it. Man is dependent on nature, they are not its masters, but they are dependant. Taking it a step further, man is a part of the ecosystem in many ways. Planting, harvesting, feeding animals, and even introducing animals or different species to new areas. The problem is no one recognizes this and soon the final price tag will show. These prices already are showing with climate changes and global warming. In the end though, resources will run out leaving people vulnerable and that is something no one wants to see. So maybe Thomas is right in the idea it is time for a revolution of human thoughts. The final price tag does not have to come, people can change and should because the environment was here first and without it there would be no homes or food or any of the resources needed.
In conclusion, nature is a very important piece of life for all living organisms. People being the biggest benefactors and the largest destructors need to change their way of life. For any of the environment to survive and be appreciated it needs to be seen as a home, not just land. The problems, destruction, and accidental killing of the planet and its ecosystems needs to end. If the destruction doesn't stop, the earth as it is now known wont be anymore. In fact, it won't ever be in total greatness like it once was. Nature is important and should be protected always, it all depends on the relationship it now shares with man.