Comparing Walkabout And The King Of Trees

In this research paper, I will be using the film “Walkabout” and the book “The King of Trees” to express the embodied consciousness of nature inside of the human. Despite the fact that there is always an invisible boundary between human and nature, we often view ourselves apart from nature. Yet as humans, we sometimes unconsciously adapt with the environment around us, and the sense of adaptation inverts into an interaction with our surrounding (nature). Through this interaction, we will discover that as human we are already natural and part of nature. Eventually, we will come to a realization that the boundary between humans and nature is actually a civilized line. Due to the fear of unknown creatures in nature as humans, we instantly choose to step out of the “dangerous” zone and stick with our familiar civilized …show more content…
The effect of the fear leads humans to start forming a boundary and use it as an alert that nature is another “world”. Yet for animals and ecosystems, nature is seen as a harmonious place, and from their lenses, our civilized world might instead be a vicious place. “The King of Trees” by Ah Cheng shows us a contrast how knotty and a group of educated youth interact with nature. As humans, we often use an unnatural treatment towards nature and it often ends with a sad result. Lynn Whites argues that “what we do about ecology depends on our ideas of the man-nature relationship,” which suggests that as humans we created our own hierarchy and put ourselves into a master position. In the story, knotty asked our main character why cutting down the trees and he answered: “we’ll cut down useless trees and replace them with useful ones.” What is the definition of useful and what is the definition of useless? This comment that was made by our main character reveals how selfish our human being is, we simply use our own civilized interpretation to judge what is useful and useless in nature. “Trees can’t run away,” this