Pine

In three poems – "Old Woodrat's Stinky House", "The Mountain Spirit", and "Boat of a Million Years" – Gary Snyder uses the concept of deep time to show us how nature views time and implies that humanity needs to be able to see time the same way. Snyder's poems imply that he believes people have forgotten their place in the natural world and that we should try to regain our respect for nature. "Old Woodrat's Stinky House" explains what is wrong with how we perceive time. "The Mountain Spirit" shows

Olivia slammed the door to her log cabin in Lake Tahoe, she had seen Brooke in the cabin next to hers. Olivia hated Brooke. Her family had lots of money so she would get everything she wanted. Olivia wanted that necklace she’d always seen Brooke wear since her birthday. “I need her necklace! The gold and the diamonds look so good!” Olivia told her brother Simon. “I don’t get why you hate Brooke but at the same time want to be her.” Simon replied. “Jesus Simon! You don’t understand me, you never

In a small town called Whigham located in the southwest part of Georgia is a home numbered 201 in the middle of Harrell Avenue Northwest. The home is shaded by a mighty oak tree, its exterior is white in color with a forest green metal door and window trim painted forest green to match the door. On the outside this house is full of plant life, two domestic dogs that guard the home from morning to night, and wild animals living off the provisions of the land. The inside of the house is full of

waves of winds gives me goosebumps as I shiver my writing slants downwards and then juts up. There is an underlying rattling from this grass all bending to the East from these gusts. Pine needles from the Ponderosas are sprinkled on the ground and crunch under each step I take–crunch, then scatter. I break apart these pine needles and other debris, even some dry leaves from the aspens above. A meadow with ponderosas, an incline with aspens, all situated on this vast mountain. The wind touches all within

intercom, yelling to all the frightened passengers, “Fasten your seatbelts and curl into a ball! We’re going down!” I began to hold my mouth, my entire head flushing the color green as the plane zoomed like a missile and spiraled like a fan towards the pine tree-dotted landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Without warning, the plane collided with the ground like a Bighorn ram in a sparring match. Sparks shot everywhere as I jolted out of my seat, rolling like a barrel towards the front of the plane. I couldn’t

not be discussed. Tree seedlings and saplings were recorded only if they fell within the area encompassed by the belt transect length and width. If they did, the four-letter species code was recorded per individual seedling (ex: PIPO for ponderosa pine), its status (1 if living, 0 if dead), height (cm) from ground level, and the number of internodes to determine approximate

temperatures during the summer, and the Santa Clarita region alone has had a 20% reduction in soil moisture. The effects of the reduction of soil moisture has led to concerning forest fire events such as the Sand Fire in 2016 and also the invasion of Pine Bark Beetles. Events like these can be incredibly dangerous to both nature and to the human population. Although difficult to prevent because forest fires can happen naturally when temperatures rise, especially during summers, there are still many

The car ride wasn’t that long but it felt like forever. Once we got out of my familiar range of York my mind drifted off the anticipation but it still stayed close behind. The music coming from the car was blurred from my lack of attention to it. The sound of my dad’s voice on another business call coming from the front was also put to the side as all my attention was intentivly directed to my phone. Scrolling through feeds and games the log eternity of the car ride drew more intense. Though it was

Climate change can affect plants and animals that live in a delicate environment. Climate change affects populations of plants and animals in random ways. These changes in plant and animal habitat could affect migration patterns (Cohn 2). Plants will be more affected by a change in scenery more than animals because plants depend on the right temperature and rainfall in order to stay alive. Another reason that plants will be affected more is that plants stay in one place and animals can move if

People keep an emotional distance between one another to prevent others from getting too close to them. Robert Frost in the poem “Mending Wall” shows the reader an example of two different kinds of people. One kind of person is open to the idea of friendship and is willing to make an effort to try to dissolve any conflict, and try to get along with someone else anyway possible. Then there is the other side which is against the idea of change, someone who is closed to the idea of something new