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A Literature of Place
In the essay, “A Literature of Place”, by Barry Lopez examines that nature shapes our identity and morality. Lopez claims that if you’re intimate with a place, a place with whose history you are familiar with. Lopez supports the issue by describing the relationship you can bond with a place. Having conversations with it listening for the sound of the wind or search for the smell of the water; the place knows you’re there. It can feel you. Lopez believes you will not be forgotten by the place. Also that writing more about what is outside world instead of one-self, and also about how nature impacts people in many different ways. Lopez finds comfort being able to turn to nature or science facts to prove points or explain …show more content…

Like he probably likes being by all the dryness, and owns a lot shorts whereas being in Michigan we love wet weather and like all of the different seasons. Writing about nature I enjoy doing also because it feels comforting to write about things that are natural and occur around everyone and everywhere. He likes to use nature to describe himself and believes that his writing are part of him and they are extremely intimate with himself. He raised birds, and thought they were magical, like everytime he looks up he can see their patterns. I feel that way about my dog Buddy I feel like he knows exactly what i'm thinking and that my dog is magical. When Lopez was talking about the native people it makes me think of living in Alpena for so long and knowing the personalities that people in this area tend to be the same pretty much because we are all shaped by the same things like the fact that we live by the water and can experience all four different seasons all within the same week or so.When Lopez states that people occupy the same moral universe as the landscape they sense, i can't relate to that because i don't really understand what he is trying to convey in that statement but i feel like he is trying to say that we soak up our morality from our

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