The Nature Conservancy

natural world should be an item of social concern(CITE). Environmentalism relates to conservationism, the belief that natural resources should be treated carefully so as to produce the greatest benefit, and preservationism, the belief that untrammeled nature has inherent value, whether ecological, aesthetic, or spiritual, and therefore that some landscapes should be left undeveloped. (CITE) Within the history of the Soviet Union, Environmentalism is remembered as being of little to no…

The connections that one makes with the real or imagined landscapes reveals the need for individuals and society to feel a sense of belonging and unity. Melissa Harrison’s novel, Clay and the Funk Brothers’ short film, Looms represents this view of people and landscapes being inextricably linked. The novel, Clay explores how TC visits the park and secret garden as it is a platform for escapism and refuge. This need for escapism is stimulated by his fractured relationship with his mother, causing…

a wilderness approach to nature environmentalists are missing the point. No place is truly wilderness because in some way, shape, or form humans have been altering the world around them and they have been doing since the dawn of civilization. Cronon is right, wilderness as most people perceive it does not exist. However, I believe Cronon is a bit too harsh on environmentalists on the idea of wilderness. I argue that believing in a wilderness is a part of human nature and the human experience,…

statement from Pinker really shows how language affects a reader understanding, the two authors John Muir and William Woodsworth do just that. Muir and Woodsworth both show an interesting bond with nature, but they use different writing styles, diction and word choice to establish their relationship with nature. An element like these is vital so the reader can clearly understand the author's point. Initially, Muir uses diction and exquisite word choice…

sees it. While a great deal of his arguments are based off the idea that the wild is unnatural, he wants to clarify what that means—not the wild and nature itself is fake, but rather it is our perception of wilderness and what we associate with it that creates these issues. To begin with he defines the wilderness as an experience—one of being out in nature, seeing something utterly distinct and unnatural to us, an entity that we know is something we could never fully understand. This definition…

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…