When I Heard The Learn D Astronomer Essay

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Some may argue that people interact with nature in an overall positive way because of the poem titled, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman, and how it shows that humans interact with nature in a positive way. However, when people do interact with nature, it is usually in a negative way and they tend to take the Earth and all it has to offer for granted, as shown in “My Life as a Bat” by Margaret Atwood, because people's feelings for bats are almost always negative, as well as in Hope for Animals and their World by Jane Goodall, because of how the American Burying Beetle has gone down in population. People interact with nature a a negative and horrible way.
In “My Life as a Bat”, the author is writing about how people treat bats and how they tend to dislike innocent animals who are just playing their role in their individual environments and ecosystems. She goes on to write that humans are scared of them for no reason and that they don't want bats around, even when they aren’t harming anyone. Atwood says, “I look down at the man’s face, foreshortened and sweating, the eyes bulging and blue, the
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Whitman writes, “Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, in the mystical moist night air” (lines 5-6). They are wanting to connect with nature and learn from experience, rather than sitting and listening to their teacher or professor in a boring, dull classroom. People like to tend to sit outside and enjoy the fresh air, the beauty, the peace and the calm that they feel from being outside. Whitman writes, “and from time to time, look’d up in perfect silence at the stars” (lines 7-8). Humans have the ability to treat nature and all it has in it with respect and kindness and can learn so many things from

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