The Nature Conservancy

Nature is not kind; it is not good. Nature is the force that propels bees to fly themselves to the death just for the chance to mate with their queen. Nature is the floods that swallow up towns and cities and destroy the lives of hundreds. These dark truths are concealed by society’s obsession with the beauty and meaning of nature. In today’s society, we no longer reflect Emerson’s fanciful view of nature but Oates’s cynical perspective. Nature is imperfect and does not hold the ability to…

In this passage, Richard Louv states that modern Americans still continue to lose what little contact they have with nature as time goes on, and this trend needs to stop. In order to persuade his intended audience, current adults who grew up in his generation, Louv speaks to them on their own terms by using emotional appeals. Specifically, Louv uses rhetorical questions that cause readers to fully reevaluate their stances on the matter, specific diction that evokes strong emotional responses,…

In the world, there’s many ways of helping people in need from all around the world, and one of them would be voluntourism. Voluntourism is a combination of both volunteering and tourism. You visit a foreign country and use your time effectively and have the chance of exploring new things and places. In the lines that proceed, I will be clarifying the topic and stating some positive and negative aspects of it. In my opinion, voluntourism is a great way of supporting and helping impoverished…

In a foreword to Subhankar Banerjee's book, former President Jimmy Carter makes an argument against allowing drilling and industrial activity in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In his defence of his position, Carter effectively uses a combination of factual evidence, style, and appeals to emotion to persuade the reader of his ideas. Carter starts the foreword off by describing a time when he went to the Arctic Refuge with his wife, and recounting all of the Refuge's natural beauty, from…

Bob and the Blob Bob knew that he should not have mixed those chemicals together, but the resulting giant blob that ate up the school was not really his fault. How could he have known, that by mixing hydrochloric acid, potassium iodine, copper sulfate and some of the “secret” substance behind the teacher’s desk would have resulted in an omnivorous, gelatinous blob? However, he was blamed nevertheless. The chemistry class that Bob attended had few rules that had to be explained, as most were what…

Overcoming Natural Disasters (A discussion on Leonard Pitts’ article, Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel) Over the course of the reigning of the earth, natural disasters have seemed to overcome man, both physically and emotionally. Natural disasters have been extremely traumatizing and damaging since the beginning of time. In Pitts’ article, he describes the terrible and saddening country of Haiti and the extremes that the people of that island have to go through. The devastation as other…

Nature is usually seen more as the setting, rather than the antagonist in a story. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” there is a never ending battle between nature and the four different living entities, whether they be current or past experiences. This portrays nature as more of an opposing character, rather than it being a part of the setting. By using the four characters, the man, the dog, the old-timer from Sulpher Creek and the boys, London is able to portray how nature impacts them all…

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…

In the article “Talking to the Owls and Butterflies”, John Fire Lame Deer discusses how Indians and Whites see nature from completely different aspects. Indians embrace nature. The visual image I chose shows all aspects of nature that Lame Deer states Indians appreciate: the peaceful outdoors, the wildlife within it, and the Great Spirit (624). The white man, on the other hand, looks at a forest and sees raw resources to build a luxury home. He takes what once was a wildlife animal and turns it…

balanced in order to grow and be stronger. Similarly, in the documentary Cold Warriors: Wolver vs. Buffalo, director Jeff Turner explains that the world has beautiful places with high valleys, canyons, and stunning forest. We should watch and learn from Nature. For this, and other reasons, Aldo Leopold would feel conflicted about what is happening in Wood Buffalo National Park. One strong point to consider from the documentary is when the wolf had to kill a middle age buffalo in the heart of…