Nature

In Mending Wall, nature seems to be the third wheel of the story, the silent character surrounding the neighbours. However, the protagonist of Mending Wall has profound respect for nature and the beings that occupy it. He uses nature in trying to convince the neighbour not to build a wall. This is evident when the persona says “… apple trees will never get across/ … and eat the cones under his pines…”. The apple trees are personified as the speaker claims that they will never cross onto the…

Many questions have persisted through the course of humanity, none more existential than that of who we are. Abstract in nature, many have sought to answer this question whether it is nature or nurture that shapes who we are. People are incredibly complex, both biologically and psychologically making it a difficult question to answer. Many studies have been done over the years and it is clear there is no black or white answer to this age-old question. There is ample evidence to support both…

Nature’s role in providing may be different in each person’s mind and in this case it is. Marlowe, Raleigh, and Williams all wrote poems having to do with nature and how it provides from gifts to absolutely nothing. Marlowe used figurative language of imagery and irony to express his point on nature. Marlowe also expresses his knowledge on how nature can provide for humanity and other aspects as well. In Marlowe’s poem, he delivers imagery to the audience by saying, “And I will make thee beds…

The book, The Forest Unseen, A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell is his experiences in his year-long journey in a mandala within the Tennessee forests. He describes many different types of wildlife he observes during his time in the forest. The purpose of the author writing this novel is to show how the life in the mandala relies on each other for survival. All the wildlife in the mandala depend on each other to survive. The first example of relationships in the forest is on page 2…

European counterparts by emphasizing the role of unadulterated nature that was not present in Europe; however, at the same time, the Industrial Revolution resulted in a society that became more interested in urbanization, like Europe, who they were initially trying to avoid becoming. The importance of nature is first introduced in America with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Overnight, Americans are exposed to a vast amount of nature that was not present to them before. The acquisition of this…

who portrays how the society has changed from good to worse in terms of human relationship with nature. Most of his novels and short-stories talk about how humans tend to forget nature which had given him the comforts of life—food, water, air and shelter. He further suggests that if human wants to live a better and good life, the only way of achieving it is to have a good and caring relationship with nature. Aribam Chitreshwar Sharma is one of those writers of Manipur who witnessed the great 2nd…

for being altruistic in nature is very difficult to determine, and I find myself thinking that while a majority of us are wired for it, like anything else, there are always exceptions. It is impossible to make a statement along the lines of all humans are essentially good nature, because as of right now, it is not proven by science, and it is hard to classify people who commit certain crimes as “altruistic.” Some religions and philosophers hold the basis that humans in nature only care about…

Throughout the novel, Achebe uses different aspects of nature such as the the ceremony of the week of peace, yams, night trees and evil forest. These things each symbolize and show the good and bad side of natures character. “Yams the king of crops, was a man’s crops.” (page23). In this society, the more yams you grow and harvest, it will symbolize your wealth and your strength. They show others that you have the strength to be able to harvest many yams, meaning you have more wealth in which…

cause successfully fully covers the big picture. In the series “Nature is Speaking”, various actors narrate specific things in nature. The one in particular I chose is “Mother Nature” narrated by actress Julia Roberts, compared to others, this episode focused more on nature as whole. The episode connects to ethos, logos, and pathos in multiple…

In “This Is Your Brain On Nature”, by Florence Williams, she writes about different scientists who had been researching on people’s brain when interacting with nature. For example one of the scientists, Strayer a psychologist at the University of Utah who specializes in attention, went on a camping trip without any technology and demonstrated the three-day effect. Strayer found out that on the last day he could smell things and hear things he didn’t before. Technology is a distraction to our…