Role Of Nature In Human Life

Arthur Lovejoy’s contribution in this field is also very eminent. He observes that one of the strangest, most potent and most persistent factors in the western thought is the use of the term ‘nature’ to express the standard of human values, the identification of the good with that which is ‘natural’ or ‘according to nature’. Nature has always proved to be stronger than human. It has often shown its power by controlling manpower through natural calamities like famine, drought, flood, earthquake etc. Human’s life and nature are so interlinked that it is not possible for human beings to separate themselves from its influence. Therefore they have no choice but to accept both nature’s bounty and adversity. (Fenn)
We find nature in the deep forests,

For example: to make their food trees need carbon dioxide, which is released by the organisms and in turn give out the oxygen which is essential for any organism to breathe and to sustain their life. And if human tries to disturb anyone of them, an imbalance is created, which have devastating effects on human life. Human activities have led to the degradation of the environment as the scientific evidences indicate that stratospheric ozone is being destroyed by a group of manufactured chemicals containing chlorine and/or bromine, burning of fossil fuels which releases carbon dioxide and which has ultimately led to the global warming. These disturbances made due to human activities can wipe out the civilizations. Dodo, a flightless bird of Mauritius, became extinct during the mid-late seventeenth century after humans destroyed the forests where the birds made their homes and introduced mammals that ate their eggs, passenger pigeon became extinct in 1914, the Mexican grizzly bear became extinct in

Class, race and gender are the heated topics of the literary circle today but it is important to show the concern towards these horrifying facts. Literature is the mean in which an author presents the nature or the contemporary time of his or the other societies. Literature can also be the means of awareness or enlightening the society or today’s men about their misdeeds concerning their own environment. So ecology is on one of the most discussed issues