Did you know that between the years 2000 and 2012, natural disasters caused $1.7 trillion in damage and affected nearly 2.9 billion people? Nature is a powerful thing and has the ability to affect anyone. Many people see nature as intriguing yet cruel because of these natural disasters such as Henry Longfellow and Alan Lightman. Both of these authors express their attitudes towards nature in two different poems, “Nature Poem” by Longfellow and “Our lonely home in nature” by Lightman. Their attitudes towards nature can be seen throughout both of their poems showing how they perceive nature to be mindless to humankind.
