Descriptive Essay About Nature

Humanity’s relationship with nature periodically shifts between symbiotic and parasitic. We feed off nature in order to survive, and in exchange, we carefully monitor how our behavior affects the environment and the organisms within it. Responsibility is the price we pay for dominance and sentience. To help fulfill this duty, the United States government established the Wilderness Act in 1954 with the intention of becoming passive “guardians” of nature instead of encroaching “gardeners.”…

and static, for no permanent description can be made about its nature if said nature were dynamic, and even so its dynamic nature in itself would be a constant, making any other assumption im-possible in the first place. The notion that the state of the universe is variable depending on the perceiving it must also be rejected for the purposes of this paper, as, similarly to the aforemen-tioned misassumption on the universe’s dynamic nature, such a notion would not allow for the description of a…

Jensen & Page Reflection Both Jen’s Jensen and Russell Page are poetic naturalists who successfully describe the intimate relationships among plants. They write to share their own experiences with plants in hope to teach the delicate art of planting that should accompany design. Both speak to the importance of the horticulture science when practicing landscape design. Together they recognize a designer is only as good as the harmonious or inharmonious plant combinations they choose. In…

natural world should be an item of social concern(CITE). Environmentalism relates to conservationism, the belief that natural resources should be treated carefully so as to produce the greatest benefit, and preservationism, the belief that untrammeled nature has inherent value, whether ecological, aesthetic, or spiritual, and therefore that some landscapes should be left undeveloped. (CITE) Within the history of the Soviet Union, Environmentalism is remembered as being of little to no…

The connections that one makes with the real or imagined landscapes reveals the need for individuals and society to feel a sense of belonging and unity. Melissa Harrison’s novel, Clay and the Funk Brothers’ short film, Looms represents this view of people and landscapes being inextricably linked. The novel, Clay explores how TC visits the park and secret garden as it is a platform for escapism and refuge. This need for escapism is stimulated by his fractured relationship with his mother, causing…

a wilderness approach to nature environmentalists are missing the point. No place is truly wilderness because in some way, shape, or form humans have been altering the world around them and they have been doing since the dawn of civilization. Cronon is right, wilderness as most people perceive it does not exist. However, I believe Cronon is a bit too harsh on environmentalists on the idea of wilderness. I argue that believing in a wilderness is a part of human nature and the human experience,…

statement from Pinker really shows how language affects a reader understanding, the two authors John Muir and William Woodsworth do just that. Muir and Woodsworth both show an interesting bond with nature, but they use different writing styles, diction and word choice to establish their relationship with nature. An element like these is vital so the reader can clearly understand the author's point. Initially, Muir uses diction and exquisite word choice…

sees it. While a great deal of his arguments are based off the idea that the wild is unnatural, he wants to clarify what that means—not the wild and nature itself is fake, but rather it is our perception of wilderness and what we associate with it that creates these issues. To begin with he defines the wilderness as an experience—one of being out in nature, seeing something utterly distinct and unnatural to us, an entity that we know is something we could never fully understand. This definition…

Many people think that since the Industrial Revolution humans have been destroying nature. In Wendell Berry’s, “Getting Along with Nature” Berry goes into detail about the defenders of nature and their enemies. Berry believes that people cannot live without nature, but not like the complete wilderness. People also don’t like a totally human environment either, an equal balance is needed. Which comes from the start of the industrial revolution, and because of this, there are the conservationists.…

Olafur Eliasson is an Icelandic installation artist who works with light and the spaces in which his installations reside. In 1967, he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and raised in Iceland. The desolate northern landscape of his childhood had developed his artistic sensibilities and style, giving him a keen appreciation for the changing drama of natural light. He began his career selling lamps, called Little Suns, to poor people who had little access to electricity in Africa. Eliasson wanted…