Barak Lost Link With The Natural World

Today in our society, people are inventing new technology every day to make us more comfortable, such as T.Vs, vehicle, cell phones and even robots. But the other side of the problem is people are getting separated with nature. Richard Louv, the author of “Last Child in the Woods”, wrote this passage to show us that these new technologies and entertainments are separating humans and nature by using anecdotes, imagery, and allusions.

In a fascinating statement, Stenger says, engaged in a cumulative and ambitious race to modify and gain control of our environment, and in the process we have come close to domestication ourselves” (112). By controlling our natural environment, we control ourselves, and essentially we would become domesticator and the animal. Stenger is not alone in his belief that we become something different when to take away the wilderness, Annie Leonard comes to similar conclusion, even though she does not state it in the same way Stenger does. In her video “The Story of Stuff” Leonard outlines how humans have created a culture of consumerism. We want stuff, we need stuff, and stuff is our life. The only thing that makes life worthwhile, is acquiring stuff because it gives us status (Leonard). However, like Stegner says, this was of life that promotes the world we create over the wilderness, even at the cost of the wilderness does not make us happy. Leonard points out that our national happiness started declining right at the point when our society started becoming driven by consumerism. Destroying the environment, forgetting about the environment to focus on ourselves as the biggest and most important thing in the world

Nature is the playground for every human. It is essential that we include nature in our lives; it keeps us on our correct path. However, if we dismiss ourselves from nature, we begin to stray from our correct path. We become engulfed in the distractions from the modern world . The only approach to appropriate this quandary is to break our pervicacious ways and return to peaceful serenity known as nature.

Through removal and technology, humans have started to become isolated from the wilderness and the nature around them. This view distinctly contrasts with Thoreau’s perspective. “Though he [Thoreau] never put humans on the same moral level as animals or trees, for example, he does see them all linked as the expression of Spirit, which may only be described in terms of natural laws and unified fluid processes. The self is both humbled and empowered in its cosmic perspective,” states Ann Woodlief. The technologies that distract and consume us, and separate us from the natural world are apparent. Many people and children ins cities have seen little to no natural-grown things such as grass and trees. Even these things are often domesticated and tamed. Many people who have never been to a National Park or gone hiking through the wilderness do not understand its unruly, unforgiving, wild nature. These aspects, thought terrifying to many, are much of why the wilderness is so beautiful and striking to the human heart. “Thoreau builds a critique of American culture upon his conviction that ‘the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality,’” pronounces Rick Furtak, quoting Thoreau’s Life

Throughout history, humans have had a strong reliance on nature and their environment. As far back as historians can look, people have depended on elements of nature for their survival. In the past few decades, the increased advancement of technology has led to an unfortunate division between humans and nature, and this lack of respect is becoming a flaw in current day society. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv criticizes modern culture by arguing that humans increasing reliance on technology has led to their decreasing connection with nature through the use of relevant anecdotes, rhetorical questions and powerful imagery to appeal to ethos.

‘The sheer popularity’ of stimulating nature or using nature as ad space ‘demands that we acknowledge, even respect, their cultural importance,’ suggests Richtel. Culturally important, yes. But the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of ‘true’ nature— the certainty that it’s not even worth looking at. (Louv lines 9-19)

In today’s world, it is often deemed that the younger generation “cannot seem to get off their phone,” that we cannot hold an attention span for longer than thirty seconds without wanting to check our social media or the fact that all of us simply care about technology. In Ursula LeGuin’s short story “Direction of the Road,” LeGuin depicts the life of an oak tree and treats it as if it were a human, giving it thoughts and feelings, and telling an overall story of how it feels ignored; the story progresses to show that the tree then kills a driver when the they collide with the tree. After reading this short passage, one might believe the stigma that the human race of today ignores the importance of nature and pays more attention to technology; however, this is not true for various reasons. Although technology is rapidly advancing in today’s society, we still find the effort to take care and appreciate our environment; this can be seen through the environmental justice movement, the way we strive to make

Within the modern world, and the modern thought process people have about our connection with new technologies is one of constant expanse. All caution is thrown to the wind in an attempt to satisfy one insatiable hunger for a certain type of keeping up with the Jones-es. Many authors speak on the wonder of technological advances on society by the exact means of how they work, however, Richard Louv is not this kind of author. He presents technology as useful, but with an underlying tone of a technological numbing agent. We begin to only see it instead of what Earth has given us millions of years. Technology is only a certain part of the problem with the real problem being humanity's mindset toward our greatest asset, nature. Mr. Louv uses extremely profound and intelligent rhetoric to push forward the idea that us as humans are already so broken away from nature, that eventually it will be deemed illogical we used it for anything other than a means produce by it. Richard shows three areas we have really broken apart from nature with the three examples of ad space for parks, extra commodities for an SUV, and the genetic modification of animals.

Nowadays, society is full of abundant materialistic stuffs, which makes human to be isolated to each other and even the nature. A writer, Richard Loux, established a book Last Child in the Woods in 2008 to argue about the separation between people and nature to all people, especially parents who have children. Loux adopted a persuasive tone throughout the passage to reach his purpose---make comparison between movie on the television and the “drive-by movie” out the car window in order to emphasize the importance of nature---by employing rhetorical questions nd some short sentences.

Since the beginning of time, mankind has depended on nature for survival. Although, throughout the years society has learned to manipulate nature for their own selfish advantages. In the passage written by Richard Louv, he utilizes rhetorical questions, repetition, and a tone of nostalgia to stress that sad truth about the separation of mankind and nature.

Many people today rely on technology like it is indispensable. The pathetic desire for electronics has consumed how people think and how people live. Richard Louv writes to his generation of the increasing disconnection of humans from nature in his book, Last Child in the Woods. Louv takes a stand against the separation by including personal anecdote, rhetorical questions, and visual imagery.

Environmental documentarian, Bridget Besaw, combines both photography and film to advocate wilderness preservation and food sustainability. She creates “visual stories that serve as a rousting, yet romantic reminder of our collective instinct to care for the planet” (Besaw, 2015). Besaw’s photography captures a range of environmental issues from “threats to Maine’s wilderness, loss of working farmland in New England, restoration of crucial salmon habitat in the North Pacific, wilderness preservation in South America, and sustainable fisheries initiatives throughout the world” (Besaw, 2015). Besaw uses photography so others get “a closer understanding of and relationship to their own bodies and the planet that provides them with life. So for

Do you ever remember during car rides looking out of the window at this airplane that was 39,600 feet up in the air following your car? Do you remember witnessing car accidents on the side of the road? The children of the twenty-first century are missing these simple observations because they are so caught up with their electronics. Author Richard Louv describes his perspective of separation between people and nature from a passage in his book, “Last Child in the Woods (2009)”. Richard Louv uses a variety of rhetorical devices to argue that the advancement of technology is beginning to overpower our view of nature.

The film is not only able to show the way humanity has lost contact with nature but also how much they appreciate and want it back in their society.

The beautiful blossoms that bloom in Californian spring, the summer daisies alongside the cooling lake, long after the summer the trees have lost their leaves entering autumn to fresh white snow out in the mountains. Nature is able to show us its true beauty without any falseness and modifications. After all, is it not ironic how people go to museums to look at paintings of colorful flowers, green hills, and clear water streams; those are beauties that can easily be observed in real life outside of the urban environment which are surrounded by them, or how people buy recordings of the calming sounds of nature, similar to what you would listen to at night in the woods or smell nature aromas of the candles. What we are doing is trying to mislead our minds and pretend to think that we are in the woods but are instead cornered inside our small, well-furnished, and full -with-technology apartment.