The State Of The Environment

As humans began to develop, the need to expand increased. Some of this increase causes nature to be destroyed on the very foundation in which the new buildings and complexes are built. In the two pieces of writing, The Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey and Wasteland: An Elegy by Mary Oliver, the authors examine their own personal experiences with nature. In order to show that humans should respect and are connected to nature, the authors narrate their story in first person, but choose different approaches to aspects such as tone and the use of pathos.

If you ever get a chance to visit Chaco Canyon National Monument in New Mexico, you should take the time to just stand in the desert and listen. The silence in this place is physical; you can feel it surround you. This is a silence with depth and layers that are unbroken even by the wind, which moves through emptiness and speaks only in occasional sighs through the canyons. The air itself is very clear—the lack of humidity gives the cliffs and buttes sharp lines, and the colors of the earth, though muted, stand in stark relief to the blueness of the sky. Night comes gradually to this place. The height and dryness of the air allows the stars to appear before the sun has set—creating an odd

In his passage from “Last Child In the Woods”, author Richard Louv illustrates how people today don’t appreciate the greatness of nature, as adequately as they should. In employing multiple rhetorical strategies, Louv forces the audience to feel ashamed and remorseful for wanting to create a sort of artificial nature, and deprive their children from experiencing nature in its vastness. In addition to using very accusatory tone, Louv utilizes sarcastic diction, metaphors, and repetition to remind to the older generations, or anyone who remembers a world without modern technology, to teach the younger generations to always appreciate the world outside of their screen.

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 see the grass of yesterday as greener. This is the case with Richard Louv in his work Lost Child in the Woods where he believes that today’s society is too removed from nature and too obsessed with technology. Louv claims that as the world becomes increasingly influenced by technology the “true nature” is less valued than it was with previous eras. He successfully uses rhetorical techniques in order to accomplish his purpose of criticizing the people of today for distancing themselves from the natural world.

The interconnection between the human race and nature is complex, and can be interpreted an infinite amount of ways. Mark Jenkins’ ‘King of the Dirtbags’ and Wendell Berry’s ‘An Entrance to the Woods’ are both very similar in the ways they represent philosophical ideas regarding the relationship between the modern man and nature. Both literary pieces discuss the benefits of simplicity, and explain how mankind has a tendency to overcomplicate much of what they develop. The two authors also share the idea in their writings that the ability to adapt to different environments is a crucial trait in evolution and progression as a society. Another major concept that is prevalent in both of the author’s pieces is that man must be able to reach beyond his comfort zone to understand nature’s consistency throughout time.

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.

Reading William Cronon and Neil Smith, I came to understand that each of the two authors introduces us to a different approach of human conceptual relationship with nature. In The Trouble with Wilderness, William Cronon speaks about how we reject our responsibility toward nature and the potential danger existing in our conception of wilderness (or nature).  On the other hand, Neil Smith in The Production of Nature introduces us to how humanity transforms the nature in the process of producing commodities.

In “The Last Child in the Woods” (2008), Richard Louv argues that the separation between humankind and nature is occurring because of our rapid advancement of technology. Louv creates his evidence through anecdote of experiments with genetic technology and his friend’s shopping experience to celebrate “survival in the material world,”; imagery of times spent looking outside of the backseat and “understanding of how cities and nature fit together,”; and diction. He writes on this subject in order to remind both his generation and future generations of the beauty of nature and to urge future generations to hold respect and reverence for it. Louv pleadingly addresses the younger generation to hold the same wonder and amazement

Global warming or climate change is at the top of the agenda as far as major environmental issues go. All our current environmental issues end up becoming a global problem. Take any one, two, or even three issues; water levels rising, carbon emissions, temperature increases and you have global warming. These issues and more combined starts a cascade effect like gradual heating of earth, ocean levels start to rise due to melting of polar ice caps in short, a greenhouse effect.

Forty years ago home computers were nonexistent. Thirty years ago, smart-phones were nonexistent. Heck, air conditioning and electric windows in cars were rare at those times. As a modern day society, we often look for the next best technology with smart phones, computers, televisions, and vehicles, while we forget the simple pleasure of nature. In the excerpt from Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods, Louv effectively uses various forms of appeal in order to illustrate the separation between people and nature.

Price-Mitchell seems to have written this article with the intent to show that mankind is no longer in touch with nature, something that made us happier in the past centuries.

In American Literature many authors write about nature and how nature affects man's lives. In life, nature is an important part of people. Many people live, work, or partake in revelry in nature. Nature has received attention from authors spanning several centuries. Their attitudes vary over time and also reflect the different outlooks of the authors who chose to discuss this important historical movement. A further examination of this movement, reveals prevalence of nature's influence on man and how it affects their lives.

White’s thesis in The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis states that in order to confront the expanding environmental crises, humans must begin to analyze and alter their treatment and attitudes towards nature. The slow destruction of the environment derives from the Western scientific and technological advancements made since the Medieval time period. “What people do about their ecology depends on what they think about themselves in relation to things around them” (RON p.7). Technology and science alone will not be able to save humans until we adjust the way of thinking and suppress the old ideas of humans power above nature. Instead, we need to learn how to think of ourselves as being

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