The Impact Of Nature By Rachel Carson

As human beings we’re all affluent to live on this fascinating place called earth. We live everyday normally just as every other human, animal or insect. But we eradicate insects and animals as if they aren’t as important as we are. Nature is being inherently demolished by humans who are oblivious to know that all living things on the earth have a purpose . However, Annie Dillard, well-known for her ambiguous nonfiction books help support the importance of nature and why we shouldn't intrude upon it. For example, Dillard’s excerpt from “The Fixed” about a Polyphemus Moth uses countless rhetorical strategies to construct a compelling message about the peace and beauty of nature, but it also illustrates how easily mankind can destroy it. Therefore, a part of nature is to be naturally

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

This is an efficient strategy. It makes her audience want to get involved and preserve the natural resources the environment has to offer. In her essay she describes the devastating effects chemicals have on the environment with such conviction; it might make the reader feel obligated to make changes in his or her own life to help the natural world. Rachel Carson uses an assertive tone to get her point across. She has a one-sided argument and is very aggressive to those who oppose her point of view. She is very effective at stating her opinion to her audience.

Irma, Harvey, Mexico City earthquake, the 2011 tsunami in japan, Haiti earthquake; nature time and time again smites us with its relentless and unmatched force. Though out the years mankind has battled for survival against the brutal conditions nature has thrown at them and they have created themselves. Continually, without hesitation, they have risen from these disasters to build and grow a new. Yet still, mankind seems to bath in its own naivety at the truth of what nature really is for them. Without haste they push against nature and forget all it has done for them. This idea of respect, however is not so easily forgotten by all. Many writers and poets tell beautiful stories and tales of the power and care of mother nature’s hand extends. One such poem, “The earth is a living thing”, by Lucille Clifton, brilliantly adds to such ideas. The idea that nature poses not only strength but the smarts and heart right along with it. A concept that is not readily shared by many essay writers. Despite these other writers, John Muir follows suit with Clifton in, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”. Where Muir bashes his reader with the harsh reality of winter, followed by an explanation of the gentle caring hand nature extends to us all. Mother nature has the power to shelter and protect, nurture and grow, but also has the power to demolish and take away everything

From the dawn of humanity, nature has been sacrificed for the sake of progression. Forests are chopped down and paved with concrete, while everyday scientists work to enhance species chosen as beneficial while killing those thought of as nuisances. By the mid 20th century, this had become an accepted and encouraged faucet of life, that is, until biologist by the name of Rachel Carson published Silent Springs, a book dedicated to stopping the mass extermination of blackbirds. Through carefully constructed arguments and rhetoric, the novel was able to transform the American mindset of their view on nature. Therefore, Rachel Carson uses figurative language and appeals in order to portray the mass spraying of wildland as harmful.

Humans have always had a relationship with the ocean. Whether the relationship is good or bad, the ocean links humans together and surrounds them. The ocean is an important resource that people learn more and more about every day. Technology has had great impact on the ocean as well as how people perceive the ocean. Both Richard Gillis and Rachel Carson touch upon this age-old relationship between humans and the ocean and how technology aids or hurts this connection.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, is arguably a seminal text of the environmental movement and continues to impact on critical ecological discourse fifty years on. The late 1950’s were a period of relative economic prosperity in the United States with a parallel baby boom following World War 2. However, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union manifested economic and political rivalries during the same time. It was in this era, that Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring which invoked the public into an ‘environmental consciousness’ (Griswold 2012). Inherent in Carson’s text, that fundamentally sought to inform the wider public about the biological dangers inherent in pesticides, was her ability to utilise a variety of literary

The significance and urgency of environmental protection is widely approved nowadays. Though, back in the twentieth century, environmental awareness was known to few. Silent Spring, authored by Rachel Carson and published in 1962, acts as a milestone in the history of environmental literature. It describes how the improper application of chemicals like DDT is weakening the balance control of nature, leading to a silent world lack of biological diversity.

Over the course of a year, the landscape changes drastically. The barren trees grow leaves in March. They turn yellow, red, and orange in the fall and brown in the winter. As humanity has expanded, it’s affected the environment. To gather materials to build homes, we’ve cut down trees. In building factories, we fill the air with smog. Literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflect these times of technological advancements at the cost of nature. In Jean Toomer’s “Fern” and Langston Hughes’s “Cora Unashamed,” the heroines and the abhorrent acts committed against them parallel the destruction of the environment by industry and artificiality.

The privileges of business versus our needs for safe land, water, and air are immensely essential points that are currently discuss. In my opinion the article “The Commitment to Persevere: by Rachel Carson” is very perceive. Is quite insane that people knowing devastate its own environment. “The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”- Muller, G. H. (Pg. 670, 2014). Honestly, many people around the world think more about their principles of life than they do about the health of specific species and creatures that we scarcely even see. We should be careful, we are destroying ourselves as well as the planet itself. There are such a

Nature has control of all living things. All living things on earth are bound by the many powerful forces of nature. Living things, plants, animals and humans, cannot avoid or even stop nature from her process. Living things all in their time procreate, are born, grow, age and eventually die. Plants, animals and humans exist within a hierarchy; a food chain and must eat and consume other living things in order to survive. Humans, in particular, are masters at using any and all living and nonliving resources and adjusting to the surroundings for survival; while animals instinctively adapt to their environments, and seek out food on their own. The understandings of nature and her relentless force on living things, is the background for Jack London’s work, which is characterized by literary Naturalism and Realism.

As the semester comes to ending, a reflection becomes necessary to understand and analyze the literature that was either chewed, swallowed, or digested. Within these past few months it has become apparent that several patterns have arose across several pieces, yet one struck most astoundingly. The necessity for intuition comes into play as the optimal connection through nearly all of the pieces discussed due to the factors that best understand the impact of society on nature must be taken into future oriented and global perspective.

The central idea has a strong ecological message embedded into it. The people of that village disregarded the environment and thought that they had found an easy solution for all of their problems. Whether that be harmful waste products or things that needed to be “forgotten”. It is soon understood that at the end of the story their ignorance and lack of understanding of the hole which symbolized the environment came back to haunt them in the future. “What goes around comes around.” The author wanted the reader to analyze our actions on how we as human beings treat the planet, our home. Our malicious actions have made us destroy countless organisms and have begun to pollute the earth to create what I would like to call the beginning of the

Due to the lack of exposure to nature in my childhood I can connect with Carson’s idea that being environmentally informed changes one’s perspective of nature. It was not until I was a teenager that I actually developed a good understanding of what has been happening in the environment and did something about it. Carson describes a “town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields,” (1). The author’s use of imagery makes me reminisce about a summer I spent in Mexico in the middle of fields. One night I went out into beautiful fields of strawberries and as I looked up at the sky I noticed that I could actually see the stars. The sky was a beautiful shade of blue and there were millions of white dots in the sky shining brighter than anything I’ve seen before. This made me think about the city I live where all I see is smog and dark blue skies. At that time I was curious as of why the skies of my town did not looks clear and bright. Similarly, to Carson I developed my perception of nature by questioning the way nature looked and understanding environmentalism.

Even when humankind was still largely a hunter-gatherer nomadic society there was always one constant in their life—nature. Nature was a creative force that contained the ability to either kill them or keep them alive with no preference for the human’s opinion. As humankind formed society and began to exert their own force against nature, and nature became “a social creation as much as it is the physical universe” (TB 107) as this balance of power shifted unknowingly into the hands of humans. With this ability nature began to become a haven that people could escape to in order to reflect on their thoughts and seek peace from the crowded city life they had known. However, this new peace with nature did not completely negate humankind’s previous experience with nature. Much like Garreau suggests in Edge City nature is a spectrum that contains “hideous wilderness […] at one end of the spectrum, and the garden on the other.” It is important to understand the complicated relationship humans and nature have as shown in this spectrum, as well as recognize the need to conserve and preserve the current nature we have. This can be done through looking at the relationships between humans and nature in hostile environments, agreeable environments, and environments that contain both elements.