Mother Nature

materialistic items to feel content. Diderot writes about how the Tahitians perceive the Europeans as corrupt and controlled by their urge for more. Whereas, Rousseau describes how his stay on the island has cultivated him, he appreciates the beauty of mother nature. Both Diderot and Rousseau express in their texts how they or others have achieved euphoria without relying on materialistic items around them. Although Diderot and Rousseau have different concepts of what happiness is, it is agreed…

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…

are books of poetry romanticizing the simplicity of nature over the rushed boom of the Industrial Revolution, and the later, a horror story about an articulate, yellow skinned monster that inspired a whole subgenre of fiction and films. The connections lie deeper than what a quick read can pick up; they’re in the fiber of the themes of distinction between innocence and experience. . One overlapping key element is having respect for nature. Nature can seem inconsequential. What importance could…

I knew farming was taking chance on nature. I also knew starting up would not be easy by any measure in the beginning. However, I did not realize the amount of money required for starting up a farm. Nor did I realize to live on two paychecks would have such a powerful impact in one’s life…

will popular innovation amazingly owe biology partner statement of regret? For what reason will it owe environment statement of regret? Is it as a consequence of it took away its engaging quality related diminished consideration and connection to natures? Magnificence? Is…

a structure consistent and stable without knowing the relationship between architecture and the environment. This topic should be discussed on various angles. One of them is the aesthetical point of view, and the other is the human intervention in nature. The former is essentially an artistic debate and a generic timeless topic since the beginning of architectural practices. The other one is a more contemporary issue. In a broader aspect, this topic isn’t only the architect 's interest, but…

luxury we are living at for very much longer. Thus we need to figure out how to live simply and at one with nature, which is exactly the Elders way of life. “Elders possess keys to a classic journey of human and Earth ecological transformation. In this era, they are being called upon to reinterpret and to apply the tradition, the Story, in a new way. There is urgency to this task, for Mother Earth is no longer looking after herself naturally but is an Earth looked after, and badly, by man” (The…

in Central Park, Holden wonders if the ducks “fly away by themselves – go south or something” (91). Even though it is the Museum of Natural History, Holden does not view the exhibits as if they were scientifically accurate. Instead of learning how nature works, like normal people do, Holden notices the differences between his real life and the fake life inside the glass cases in the museum. “That museum [is] full of glass cases” (135) and nothing and no one behind the glass ever changes, grows…

Some environmentalists write stories of the complexity of the environment without mention of human experience, while other writers take an inward approach to evaluate the change of nature throughout human history. David Quammen’s Wild Thoughts from Wild Places is a compilation of personal accounts that addresses different natural phenomena and looks deeper into the environmental and social justice behind human involvement in the natural world. In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, Quammen points…

their opinions of death and nature. Dickinson’s poems can seem contradictory to readers, but she writes from multiple angles as shown in her poems on death. In “Because I could not stop for Death–,” she portrays death as considerate because “He kindly stopped…