He inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to help preserve nature so we can still enjoy its beauty today. I want to be like John Muir someday. I want to be a man who will make a difference in our modern world. I want to be a man who will stand up to protect what he believes in. Muir reminds me of another man who made a difference to the science world, Charles Darwin.
The book by the Modoc tribe “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” shows that their cultural beliefs matter a lot to them. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” talks about how much respect the Onondaga tribe has for the natural world. They believe that each creature has its own power. The book shows kindness and respect for one another. Even though the Sky Chief did not show any respect for the nature, when he asked the men to uproot the tree, he still respected the nature and his wife by uprooting the tree just to make her dream come true.
Why? This is due to the theory of the nature of man. The nature of man is what every person in the world seeks for, because it is in our “nature.” We all search for a warm shelter, food, love, lust. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain prayed for food and shelter on his journey to find the Green Knight, and when he looked up, there was Bertilak’s castle. He resisted the temptation of the Lord’s lady’s lust, but because he is still human, he could not push away the occasional greed that any person feels now and then, and kept the green girdle all to himself.
“Nature” is an accurate illustration of the views that the transcendentalists had on the natural world. By immersing himself in nature, he says that he is given a new sense of clarity, divinity, and enlightenment that cannot be gained anywhere but in nature. He was a strong believer that finding oneself and exploring one’s own soul is the ultimate pursuit of happiness, that the ultimate fulfillment in life would be self-discovery. Henry David Thoreau, Emerson’s short-time housemate, held very similar ideas, and found the works of his friend inspirational. Thoreau’s essay, “Civil Disobedience”, describes his idea of rebellion against laws he felt were unnecessary or unjust.
An appreciation of nature is not the only aspect of Victor’s character that Henry seems to have adopted: Henry is now enthusiastic about natural philosophy and eager to explore the world—much like Victor had been two years before. Victor himself notes that “in Clerval I saw the image of my former self.” One can argue that Henry represents the impending ruin of another young, brilliant man by science; one can also argue that he represents the healthy, safe route to scientific knowledge that Victor never took. In either case, Victor’s emotional outbursts strongly foreshadow Henry’s death: “And where does he now exist?” he asks. “Is this gentle and lovely being lost forever?” The pervading theme of the passive, innocent woman—manifested in
and ornith-naturalist’” (Kinsley 148). He had an extreme love for nature and believed that the anthropocentric and nature dominating views of Christianity were a huge detriment to the planet. Therefore, he lived
We can never do without the plain affection of man to man. But what we need today is not the love that will break its back drawing water for a growing factory town from a well that was meant to supply a village, but a love so large and intelligent that it will persuade an ignorant people to build a system of waterworks up in the hills, and that will get after the thoughtless farmers who contaminate the brooks with typhoid bacilli, and after the lumber concern that is denuding the watershed of its forests. We want a new avatar of love. (Source: Walter Rauschenbusch,
This relationship for nature is shared most ardently between these two. Sometimes they exert their love for nature subconsciously. For example, when Victor has to rid himself of the female monster ruins, he chooses a lake as the venue. Even though this is not a happy moment in his life, his love for nature is what draws him to it, regardless of the circumstances: “The lake refreshed him and filled him with agreeable sensations.” Connecting with nature not only helps to calm and
The Chrysalids. 182. Print.) Nothing in the world can stop nature, so does a strong mind. A strong mind that embrace the nature is like the law of nature which is people really expect for – can bring people a better life.
A Hearts Journey “From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness, The soullessness of men” is a poem written by M. Frida Huntley that when read winded and fueled my passion to peruse a life where I would be able to preserve nature and the elements that encompass it. I will never claim to be a “hippie,” I do not participate in connotations associated with its stereotype. However, I enjoy partaking in projects and research in conservation available with-in Alberta and Western British Columbia. I have always had an interest of the natural world; my interest sparked starting when I was a young child. Growing up my family relocated to the city where my interest in the natural world diminished and it was not until a visit back to my hometown that my vision for my future became clear.