"Sometimes we forget that nature also means us. Termites build mounds; we build cities. All of our being-juices, flesh and spirit-is nature." That is a strong valid statement by Diane Ackerman. As humans we forget that we are animals to, just more advanced. We are part of the natural system just like animals and insects.
Humans as a species are animals to. We may be more advanced but that does not set us completely apart from animals like many people think. We still eat, breath, move, and work to ensure our own survival. Like Diane Ackerman says, "termites build mounds; we build cities" which is a great analogy because many species build a place to live among themselves, ours is just on a larger more complex scale than others. We also like
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We don 't see ourselves as part of nature, we see ourselves as the puppeteer of nature. Pulling the strings from behind the scenes to make nature do what we want. No way we can be part of the same system animals, insects, and plants are part of. We are so much more advanced. In reality though we are part of nature. We may have a larger influence than the average mouse or deer but we are just as much part of the system as them. We are at the top of the food chain, which is a way of showing power positions in nature. We depend on the energy plants can convert from the sun, and the animals that eat such plants just like every other omnivore on the planet. We follow the same natural life cycle just like everything else; birth, grow, age, die. We are no more separate from the system than that ant you see in your garden. For us to think we are in complete control, above the normal system all living things on earth are part of, is to think we don 't depend on the earth and everything that the earth provides. We depend on the system like the system depends on us, just another piece of the large puzzle, hardly more significant than any other
Sarah K. Castle, in her scientific fiction “The Mutant Stag at Horn Creek” develops the story to tell the nature-culture hybrids and its effect on human-kind and other creatures. The story sets in one location called “Horn Creek” and the main character “Sue” a park ranger and a narrator of the story. The author shows the effect of human meddling with natures at the very beginning of the story. A “Grand Canyon” which is the story plays had been mined and it starts to be closed for visitors and Horn Creek was one of them. In this fiction author is more about to say that human kind intervention in nature is the reason for the natural world disaster.
Favorite Quotes “An important site of naturalistic writing was the city, or urban ‘jungle,’” (pg. 1138). “Rather than a source of solace or a spiritual resource, naturalists view ‘nature’ as an indifferent backdrop for the struggles and strivings of human beings. Indeed, in many naturalistic works characters struggle for survival against the seemingly hostile forces of nature,” (pg. 1138). “Spencer held that Darwin’s theories of evolution through natural selection also apply to individuals or groups within society, which consequently operate under the natural law of ‘survival of the fittest.’
This allowed us to manufacture more refined amenities such as clothes, shelter, weapons , jewelry and foot wear, which we don’t find amongst the animal kingdom. Add to that that we can think and plan makes us evolutionary more superior, hence we are humans. (202
The harsh reality surrounds the fact that as time and technology advances, the separation between people and nature increases as well. Louv, in his rhetoric from Last Child in the Woods (2008), argues why the separation between society and nature is distressing.
Nature is not only the trees, leaves, and, soil but, it encompasses a wide variety of things that cover both physical, mental, and even spiritual elements. Most important to Feige is that “Nature is infinitely large and varied”, omnipresent throughout the world (9). Nature can not be confined to a single presence but underlies in everything in the world. By Feige’s definition of nature “A body’s flesh blood and bone” also fall into the natural order of the world which expands nature’s reach to all of mankind. The main idea Feige stresses to the reader about nature, is that everything from a wooden farm to the American Republic is rooted in the natural order of things.
The things the bad mind creates; apes, cliffs, high mountains, and various reptiles are all created to harm human nature or in direct opposition of human beings themselves (24). Humans will always care what happens to nature because they are intertwined together. However, nature does not have to care for humans. It can be chaotic and crazy and still thrive. Humans would die if nature was not the way it is.
Renowned American- writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay, “Nature” reflects the true beauty of nature, he proposes the idea that we become careless towards nature we lose our sense of wonder. Emerson’s purpose is to express the miracle of reality. He inspires a sense of wonder to convey to his readers that nature is far more beautiful than we think, how unappreciative we become.
So the idea of what is natural is actually just bullshit because the planet is wholly humans’
The struggle of man versus nature long has dwelt on the consciousness of humanity. Is man an equal to his environment? Can the elements be conquered, or only endured? We constantly find ourselves facing these questions along with a myriad of others that cause us to think, where do we fit? These questions, crying for a response, are debated, studied, and portrayed in both Jack London’s “
“Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know,” wrote Emerson(Plotinus). He believed that nature was a physical
"The Ecological system theory has since become an important theory that became a foundation of other theorists work." Explorable
We should value nature and its animals much more (Becker, 1971). In today’s world we have what Becker calls a “power-saw mentality” (Becker, 1971, p. 114). Instead we’re greedy with what nature has to offer us. “Man takes what nature offers us, but usually only what he needs” (Becker, 1971, p. 114). There is a psychological difference in today’s world of what we enjoy out of nature (Becker, 1971).
The relationship between the human self and nature is strong because: To be happy is not getting satisfaction out of objects. Being happy comes from being outdoors and nature has a healing
We need to change our perspective about nature and be more caring towards the Earth. Because if we keep on being cruel and not see a life in natural creatures they will someday be gone and we will be regretting that day. We can
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