Well known writer, Richard Louv, in this excerpt from his essay, Last Child in the Woods, describes how there is a separation between people and nature. Nowadays, people are trying to change nature because they don't understand it, and they don't take the time to appreciate its beauty. We have this vision of what we imagine nature to look like, but we don't actually know for ourselves because we don't think its worth looking at. Unfortunately, no one truly realizes how important nature is in our everyday lives. Through careful word choice and credible anecdotes, Louv argues that the separation between people and nature is bigger than ever and is still growing because of the choices we are making.
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In this case the separation is caused by the backseat entertainment products and wireless headsets. If we didn't have backseat entertainment, then their would't be as big of a separation between people and nature. As stated in paragraphs 4 and 5, "Perhaps we'll someday tell our grandchildren stories about our version of the nineteenth-century Conestoga wagon. 'You did what?' they'll ask. 'Yes' we'll say,'it's true. We actually looked out the car window.' In our useful boredom, we used our fingers to draw pictures on Fogged glass as we watched telephone poles tick by. We saw birds on the wires and combines in the fields. Where fascinated with roadkill, and we counted cows and horses and coyotes and shaving-cream signs. We stared With a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with us. We held our little plastic cars against the glass and pretended that they, too, were racing toward some unknown destination. We considered the past and dreamed of the future, and watched it all go by in the blink of an eye." This anecdote also validates Louv's …show more content…
Technology is like air for kids these days we feel like we can't function without it. Unfortunately, our parents have a lot to do with the choices we are making that widens the ever-growing separation between us and nature. As stated in lines 43-56," Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important, why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching? The highway's edges may not be postcard perfect. But for a century, children's early understanding of how cities and nature fit together was gained from the backseat: the empty farmhouse at the edge of the subdivision; the variety of architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the seamy edges—all that was and is still available to the eye. This was the landscape that we watched as children. It was our drive-by movie." The diction and rhetorical questions, Louv chose to use in this sentence, also justifies his argument about the separation between people and nature. People actually used to enjoy looking out a car window, and there was no separation because they took the time to admire nature without the distractions we now have. They didn't need to watch an "actual movie" because they created one in their
Support 1: People these days are so plugged …show more content…
In this case the separation is caused by the backseat entertainment products and wireless headsets. If we didn't have backseat entertainment, then their would't be as big of a separation between people and nature. As stated in paragraphs 4 and 5, "Perhaps we'll someday tell our grandchildren stories about our version of the nineteenth-century Conestoga wagon. 'You did what?' they'll ask. 'Yes' we'll say,'it's true. We actually looked out the car window.' In our useful boredom, we used our fingers to draw pictures on Fogged glass as we watched telephone poles tick by. We saw birds on the wires and combines in the fields. Where fascinated with roadkill, and we counted cows and horses and coyotes and shaving-cream signs. We stared With a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with us. We held our little plastic cars against the glass and pretended that they, too, were racing toward some unknown destination. We considered the past and dreamed of the future, and watched it all go by in the blink of an eye." This anecdote also validates Louv's …show more content…
Technology is like air for kids these days we feel like we can't function without it. Unfortunately, our parents have a lot to do with the choices we are making that widens the ever-growing separation between us and nature. As stated in lines 43-56," Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important, why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching? The highway's edges may not be postcard perfect. But for a century, children's early understanding of how cities and nature fit together was gained from the backseat: the empty farmhouse at the edge of the subdivision; the variety of architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the seamy edges—all that was and is still available to the eye. This was the landscape that we watched as children. It was our drive-by movie." The diction and rhetorical questions, Louv chose to use in this sentence, also justifies his argument about the separation between people and nature. People actually used to enjoy looking out a car window, and there was no separation because they took the time to admire nature without the distractions we now have. They didn't need to watch an "actual movie" because they created one in their