Nature study

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…

Literary works devoted to describing the very nature of the wilderness and living in the wilderness allow readers to experience, through the author’s perspective the challenges and the satisfaction one feels when living off the land. Which then allows the reader to develop a newfound or a deeper appreciation for the wilderness. These writings describe the continuous relationship between the wilderness and humanity, and provide some insight into human nature and our ability to survive even in…

part of the landscape Nature and civilization, women and men are not absolutely opposite. The narrator puts herself in the entire natural world. From the past thirty years, ecofeminism literature has been combining the environmentalist focus on reconnection of nature with the feminist focus on gender equality. The combination produces a feminist view on environmentalism that is concerned with the degradation of both earth and its people. Ecofeminism foregoes a back-to-nature approach and in…

To the human eye, birds are one of the most beautiful and eye catching in all of nature’s creations. Even a single stray of a feather has many wonders and secrets in itself. It’s form, delicacy and it’s coloring for example. With each of these they have the power to be overwhelming. There are many families of birds well known for spectacular visual impact of their plumage. One family of birds that stands out from the rest, not just because of the extravagant appearance of many of its…

experiences and is used to show the significance of the optimism that exists within every human soul. Dickinson lived a life that was full of both faith and despair. Early on, she spent her time at the Amherst Academy where she developed her love for nature and writing. After her time at the Academy, she entered into a seminary for a year to continue her education. Growing up in a very Puritan and religious family, this seemed like an appropriate decision. She soon realized after a year that…

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax offers an animated analogy of how man’s actions have recursive actions towards the ecological balance of nature. The film largely emphasises on the artificiality of nature within Thneedville. While its citizens seem unfazed by the lack of natural resources, it is apparent that Dr. Seuss is portraying their oblivion towards the scarcity of nature itself. However, though the lack of natural resources may result in a polluted or contaminated environment, the clean outlook of…

Jack London is well known for his type of writing which is naturalism. Naturalism is about human beings and their relationships to their surroundings. London used this type of writing in the stories To Build a Fire and Law of Life. These two stories have differences and similarities, but the outcome of them are different in a way. The cold can be dangerous, but the cold temperatures in these stories can lead to someone’s last breath. In the story To Build a Fire was based in Canadian Territory…

Chapter Three The symbolism of animal farm The word “symbolism” is derived from the word “symbol”, which refers to the use of symbols, or a set of related symbols (Baldick 2000: 219). Symbolism can therefore be defined as the art of expressing ideas and emotions not by describing them directly, nor by defining them through overt comparisons with concrete images, but re-creating them in the mind of the reader through the use of unexplained symbols. (Chadwick 1971: 6) Symbolism is a kind of…

by du Bellay. The reason I chose this poem is because after analyising it, I was fascinated by the themes and what appears to me as, du Bellay's view of life. In my opinion, the poet explores not only the basic themes of love and nature but also the link between nature and human beings. In the first stanza, the poet personifies the night saying that it is the night that gathers the wondering stars “un grand tropeau d'étoiles” It seems that the stars are a representation of Du Bellay's love, her…