Descriptive Essay About Nature

The Nature of Life With eyes closed; water flows vertically from streams to rivers. Mountain peaks steeper than any hills ever seen. The sky beautifully soft and warm. Forests under the sun providing nutritious food and shelter. Migration of birds in unison. Those were my responses to the beginning of the movie Baraka, created by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. The visuals were suspenseful yet peaceful and comforting as the monkey seen in the first couples of scenes. Slowly my body swayed to…

I’ve always loved the outdoors and the sense of adventure that only nature can bring, which is how one day last summer I ended up ziplining in Tennessee. As I hooked my harness into the final platform and looked over the mountains, I experienced a sense of wonder. All of my problems seemed far away, and I felt invincible while breathing in the clear air that seemed to hold infinite opportunities waiting to be discovered. I didn’t know it then, but I would later be reminded of this moment while…

Bruno Latour manifests that humans are “all members of the Parliament of things”- life a community. He highlights that science, society, and elements of nature are interconnected. Latour wants to view the relationship between society and nature not as a “theory”, but as a “practice”6. By considering that society, science, and the environment are all interconnected, the wilderness is an experience as it is a part of everyone’s life. Aldo Leopold also…

Nature writing was a growing trend of the educated in America in the 1800s. From Emerson to Whitman to Thoreau, each writer looked toward nature for both inspiration and meaning and tried to determine how nature was connected to mankind as a whole. Furthermore, due to each distinct mindsets of this era- sublime, romanticism, and transcendentalism-, each writer observed nature for different reasons and found and had different explanations for and experiences with the natural world. As stated…

Relief from Nature “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail…..Simplify, simplify…..”-Henry David Thoreau, Walden. If we learn to take time out of our busy life to just sit and soak in what nature has to offer, we can learn different things about ourselves and about nature itself. In my experience of taking time to enjoy nature I learned…

axes.” In addition, “axes” in these paragraphs implies uncontrolled stress that can destroy our good humanity. The author implies that our proper goodness of mind can easily be destroyed by uncontrolled stress we get. [b] The author thinks human nature is good if it receives the “proper nourishment”. However, it can be bad if it does not receive “proper nourishment”. “The proper nourishment” implies mental rest and relaxation without too much “aversions and desires.” The author mentions that…

As a Colorado native, I spent much time in the mountains, hiking, skiing, camping, and I've developed an admiration for nature. Of my family, I’m the most skilled at spotting wildlife, from brown bears in the neighborhood, tadpoles in ponds, monk seals on beaches (when my mother was convinced it was a rock), to eagles on trees, I've always paid attention to the creatures around me. Eventually in freshman year I began to seriously study the sciences, and the capabilities of applying them. For a…

The hunters all aiming for the one goal of killing Old Ben are symbolic of mankind working to control the land and claim it selfishly for themselves. The years of decay on nature is shown in the fact that it takes many years and attempts to being the bear down, but in the end they are finally able to “conquer” Old Ben. It also becomes evident that even after they seemingly conquer everything they could want by killing Old…

The Grizzly man also known as Timothy Treadwell thought he could be one with nature by going to Alaska and living with bears for 13 years. Some would consider him a transcendentalist like the writers Emmerson and Thoreau. Some would argue he is just a nut case playing with bears just like Thoreau was a loser who played in Emmerson’s back yard only to move back with his parents. Thoreau was so into nature he only lived about 2 miles from town. Some would consider Treadwell and Thoreau very…

vividly through rhetorical strategies such as diction, analogies, and similes. Both passages were similar in nature, but each author had its own style. Seeing the flocks of birds deeply impacted the observers. It is evident from these passages that watching these birds provided joy and astonishment to the onlookers. Although the passages were written by different people, they are similar in nature. The true feelings of the authors were laid onto paper through strong diction. The purpose of…