W2 Essay
As I drove through that road in Hawaii riding in the passenger seat with my dad driving I was in awe of the tunnel of trees we were driving through. As you can see it was an astounding view I had never seen anything like this, in Colorado we had tunnels of stone built into the mountains on highways but this was a whole new experience. The beauty of it was amazing, yet I couldn’t help but think that just because it’s beautiful doesn’t mean it’s natural. Those trees were an assemblage interacting with each other and the road beneath them. They are ever encroaching attempting to grow into the road but we as humans keep them in check under control. Letting the trees live, but not letting them prosper and grow.
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I saw this feeling of connection to things around us when we watched the film on Andy Goldsworthy. In the film Goldsworthy spends hours creating intricate structures in nature only to have them destroyed by natural causes. He is helping show us that we can change the world, but what we change can always be changed by something else in the world. For example we can build dams as humans but the water can weather them down and destroy them. Showing that all things in the world are on an equal level even though we like to think we are superior. Connerton brings up the idea of forgetting old knowledge to form a new identity. Which becomes very applicable in this example, because we as humans were once primal just as everything else on this planet is. However once we evolved into the amazing beings we are today we have forgotten our roots. We as humans, were once connected and equal with everything around us trying to survive. Now that we can impact and control our surroundings we forget our past and create our new selves. People become blind to this but when you can see that we are all equal and connected. That moment in time is a revelation for a lot of people I know it was for me. Seeing those trees then had no meaning but looking back it’s like a tree of lights moment. Dillard describes the tree of lights as a bright vivid image that changes your view on something. So even though it didn’t occur to me at the time what I was
As I drove through that road in Hawaii riding in the passenger seat with my dad driving I was in awe of the tunnel of trees we were driving through. As you can see it was an astounding view I had never seen anything like this, in Colorado we had tunnels of stone built into the mountains on highways but this was a whole new experience. The beauty of it was amazing, yet I couldn’t help but think that just because it’s beautiful doesn’t mean it’s natural. Those trees were an assemblage interacting with each other and the road beneath them. They are ever encroaching attempting to grow into the road but we as humans keep them in check under control. Letting the trees live, but not letting them prosper and grow.
This is what Bennett was …show more content…
I saw this feeling of connection to things around us when we watched the film on Andy Goldsworthy. In the film Goldsworthy spends hours creating intricate structures in nature only to have them destroyed by natural causes. He is helping show us that we can change the world, but what we change can always be changed by something else in the world. For example we can build dams as humans but the water can weather them down and destroy them. Showing that all things in the world are on an equal level even though we like to think we are superior. Connerton brings up the idea of forgetting old knowledge to form a new identity. Which becomes very applicable in this example, because we as humans were once primal just as everything else on this planet is. However once we evolved into the amazing beings we are today we have forgotten our roots. We as humans, were once connected and equal with everything around us trying to survive. Now that we can impact and control our surroundings we forget our past and create our new selves. People become blind to this but when you can see that we are all equal and connected. That moment in time is a revelation for a lot of people I know it was for me. Seeing those trees then had no meaning but looking back it’s like a tree of lights moment. Dillard describes the tree of lights as a bright vivid image that changes your view on something. So even though it didn’t occur to me at the time what I was