The Nature Conservancy

I have had a lifelong passion for environmental issues that arose from a childhood spent amongst mountains, canyons, islands, and rivers. The Anacostia River near my home is dubbed “The Forgotten River,” for it has been transformed by neglect. It was integral to my childhood—my family canoed on the river, my crew team practiced on it, and my Eagle Scout project involved rehabilitating one of its wetlands. The river showed me that environmental issues are complex, involving science, social…

Nectar in a Sieve Danise Bachman “Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care… but look away for an instant…and it has you by the throat.” (pg. 39) Rukmani’s description of nature in an accurate one, especially for this story. Her relationship with the land is closely tied with her fate. In a way, the land was one of the antagonists in Nectar in a Sieve. When crops did poorly, her family starved. Then,…

510) Nature has its way of attacking itself that leaves the rest of us, running for safety. In this story people are affected by lightning striking a forest on a mountain. Another example of nature working against itself is when the wind blew the fire in a way that caused it to spread. The sad part is, that the forest had no protection against the fire. It’s amazing there is still life on this planet with so many natural opportunities. To destroy itself. High park fire is an example of nature…

participants are leading the earth towards environmental catastrophe through the senseless desire for growth and prosperity, which is encouraged by the myths about human ability success stories of conquering the nature. The worldwide drive by the human civilization to conquer the nature…

The main thing I learn from reading The Wilding of America and doing this exercise is that every problem in the world in connected in one way or another. The definition of wilding from the book The Wilding of American is when one’s “self-interest or self-indulgent behavior hurts others and weakens social fabrics”. There are many forms of wilding and many causes of wilding. Some forms of wilding are; economic, political, social, instrumental, expressive, individual, institutional, environmental,…

Naturalism and Science in London The Naturalistic viewpoint of how the forces of nature influence human life are expressed in the writings of naturalists, with the idea of scientific theory as an influence in the themes of their works. The writers of this time utilized ideas such as theory of evolution established by Charles Darwin, to describe how each individual species possesses attributes that make it unique. The instinctual agents which are inherited traits allow for animals to survive in…

Nature, It's everywhere. It comes in many shapes and forms and can tremendously affect humanity in both a positive way or a negative way. Some people like nature so much that they either buy a cabin in the woods,rent a beach house, or even go camping. Although there are also those who go overboard with this. On July of 1990 a 23 year old Chris McCandless (a person who liked nature) did the unthinkable. He decided to give away all the money in his bank account, pack up everything in his apartment…

Poet Gary Snyder once said “nature is not a place to visit, it is a home”. Poets Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda felt the same way throughout their poems “Sleeping In The Forest” and “Ode To The Enchanted Light”. Each authors style their use of mood and figurative language. Both are similar in style because their moods show an amazement with nature. The author in “Sleeping in The Forest” is easy going through the whole poem, and literally sleeping in the forest as his thoughts float up to the sky.…

Human Nature vs Nature Billy Collins and Emily Dickinson are both known for their amazing talents in poetry and have left their legacies for the years to come. Emily Dickinson’s poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” was published in February of 1866 and is still critically talked about to this day. Billy Collins poem “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” was published in January of 2000. Collin’s poem was published a little over a century later, which is an example of Dickinson’s very distinct…

people can be cruel, one may argue that nature itself can be that much crueler. In Leonard Pitts article “Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel”, he brings to light that nature can be quite malicious and unforgiving, especially where the little country of Haiti is concerned. He says that nature’s cruelty is a fact of life: we mourn our dead, pick up our cities, and move on with life. What else can we do? A theme strong in his article is that of cruelty, and how nature can be far more cruel to us than we…