My Relationship With Nature Essay

It always seems to come down to this question, the “who am I?” An entire branch of philosophy devoted to how to approach the question and still, I have no definite answer, though there has been some great art to come out of it. Thankfully, I have a bit more… “specificity” to work with, limits have been put down, as well as the much easier “why” to scribe. All about the idea of nature. That laid out, it turns the question from “Who am I?” to why am I doing this? The question more manageable, it’s time we answered it, and it’s not all bad. At least I don’t dream I’m a butterfly. To find the origins of my relationship with nature you would have to go back far. If you want to know my understanding of that relationship, then you would have to go …show more content…
I learned to read, I had fun with my friends, life was good. After school, however I had a new show I loved. This was when animal planet was good, and didn’t just cater to pet lovers. The show was called the Most Extreme. It was a countdown; it would list the animals that best matched a trait. After school, I would come home to see the fastest animals, the ones with the best senses or the ones with the most inaccurate myths. I learned that lemmings don’t throw themselves off cliffs, before even knowing that notion even existed. During second grade my knowledge got to shine, as we learned and did presentations, about rainforests and rainforest animals. I did my presentation on the King Cobra and made a scale model snake out of foam pipe. I named it Arthur. During Second grade, I also wrote a paper on camouflage in the natural world. This was done in creative writing, and took most of the year to complete. Till this day I still wish I had a copy of …show more content…
Just the thought that something else could share in how we feel, makes us feel better. It’s the same reason why Heinrich looked for intelligence in ravens or why we love to anthropomorphize pretty much anything, to try and connect to it. Being in nature makes us feel like a part of something bigger. We want to be part of a system, to connect like Haskell does with his mandala. What I sincerely hope my work at the aquarium did was better connected people to the system our earth is. Our gifts as observers have also made us powerful. What we do with that power, I can only hope is