Preview

Favorite Quotes From The Chapter 'Green Nature, Human Nature'

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
277 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Favorite Quotes From The Chapter 'Green Nature, Human Nature'
Green Nature, Human Nature
January 8, 2013 – WK 1
Wednesday Seminar
Favorite Quote from the reading: “Plants are to us at the same time too familiar and yet too strange to inspire the sympathy and admiration they deserve.” (Pg. 32)
1) What is something important that you learned about plants from this reading?

Chapter 1 of Plants, animals, and humans portrayed a deep disconnect that most people have with plants. This disconnect carries a completely distorted look at them in comparison to animals. Since, man is evolutionary closer to animals, having many of the same emotional, psychological and physical mechanisms for life and survival, it does make sense that we would be more inclined to examine and relate to animals on a different
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    An Overview of Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Structure
    • 2516 Words
    • 14 Pages

    An Overview of Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Structure

    no plants? Read on the find out why plants are truly the cornerstone of life.…

    • 2516 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    How The First Plants Came To Be By David Biiello Summary
    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages

    How The First Plants Came To Be By David Biiello Summary

    This perfectly explains how survival conditions effect the environment. It shows how organisms adapt and do anything because of their will to survive. I guess the planet Earth got lucky that this will to survive and scarcity of food later developed into the extremely successful organism called a plant, which provides the human race with food, oxygen, and many other important…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Summary Of Environmental Warriors Going To The Root Of The Problem
    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Summary Of Environmental Warriors Going To The Root Of The Problem

    In many cases, most people in the United States; even around the world do not acknowledge that our planet is being polluted by coal plants and other industrialized nations. Climate change is a problem and threat to the world. In the reading of “Environmental Warriors Going To The Root Of The Problem” by Greg Jobin- Leeds and AgitArte, it talked mainly about the Earth being polluted and the reasons for that. The people that aren’t wealthy are affected by the plants that are built in the cities around them. The non wealthy do not have the authority to stand up and make the environment better for themselves.…

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Powerful Essays

    Brave New World: Compelling Quotes
    • 1476 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Brave New World: Compelling Quotes

    1. ” ’But the Director’s old; lots of people are old; they’re not like that.’ ‘That’s because we don’t allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium...’“ (Huxley 110-111). In this excerpt it can be determined that Lenina is incapable of acknowledging the fact that people can appear physically aged. This is due to the reason that the World State does not allow it to happen through a series of scientific methods, which is meant to benefit the society.…

    • 1476 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Esrm the Botany of Desire
    • 2014 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Esrm the Botany of Desire

    Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: a Plant 's-eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2002. 15-29. Print.…

    • 2014 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Powerful Essays

    My Green Manifesto
    • 1383 Words
    • 6 Pages

    My Green Manifesto

    In the educational book, My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism, David Gessner goes into depth describing Dan Driscoll’s journey down the Charles River. His adventure speaks out to the readers by influencing others to get outside more so that one can appreciate the nature that is given to us on this planet. Gessner believes that if people get outside more they will soon start to understand how important this “wilderness” is and that it needs to be taken care of and loved. What many people don’t realize is that most of the communities that are lived in today aren’t considered wilderness. There may be parks or forests near-by but not wilderness; unless your living completely off the land in the Appalachians, Rockies, or somewhere where humans have not yet occupied as a community then it is not wilderness. As they journey down the river they encounter vast areas of wilderness and as they continue they see, what use to be wilderness, is now buildings in the heart of Boston where a lot has changed. He also decries the methods of many current environmental organizations, arguing that no disembodied environmentalism that “so often sounds like nagging” is likely be fully effective. He believes that to “fight joyously for what’s good in the world,” as his friend Dan has done for the Charles, is the key to protecting even the most trammeled wildness. This is why the main aspect taken out of this book is to find a new environmentalism.…

    • 1383 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Determination of effect of different type of sun light on the germination Exp. No. 2 write a lab report
    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Determination of effect of different type of sun light on the germination Exp. No. 2 write a lab report

    race. The plants not only provide food for our bodies but it also helps provide the…

    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Animal Testing Article
    • 404 Words
    • 1 Page

    Animal Testing Article

    ____ Plants are also living, non­human organisms, and we kill plants in the name of science…

    • 404 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Summary Of The Poem Beauty By Billy Collins
    • 537 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Summary Of The Poem Beauty By Billy Collins

    The speaker of the poem declares that unlike other misguided souls who choose a disciplined life, he prefers to be a rowdy rebel. The unfortunate choice of comparing himself and others to plants demonstrates the poet’s lack of skill in poetry composition.…

    • 537 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Botany of Desire
    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Botany of Desire

    In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan counters the idea that humans fully control the crops they plant for their own use. Instead, Pollan uses a “plant’s-eye view of the world” to argue that plants have manipulated humans for evolutionary advantage as much as humans have manipulated plants. The book centers around four main plants that exploit our desires: The tulip gratifies our desire for beauty, the potato for control, the apple for sweetness, and cannabis for intoxication. Pollan shows how these plants evolved to satisfy humans’ desires; for example, the sweetness of the apple induced Americans to spread the species, allowing for the cultivation of apples in a whole new continent. Pollan explores the question: Who is really domesticating whom?…

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Creative Writing Piece – Inner Journeys
    • 1049 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Creative Writing Piece – Inner Journeys

    Tom had always loved plants. He loved the way they would begin their lives as tiny seeds buried in their cosy little nests, and then, with all the essential ingredients a sprinkle of water, a cup of sunlight and a dash of time they would blossom into sharp Italian ballet dancers, their lively radiance beating against the cream-white window pane. Toms mother would grow these plants by the dozen, and, once a month, after harvest week, she would take all the plants away, replacing them with seemingly barren pots of soil, each containing their own hidden seed ready to grow and blossom into another magnificent dancer on the windowsill.…

    • 1049 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    To Paint a Water Lily Analysis
    • 597 Words
    • 3 Pages

    To Paint a Water Lily Analysis

    The speaker begins by introducing the water lily as a stage for the activity that goes on around it. He describes “a green level of lily leaves” that “reefs the petal’s chamber and paves the flies’ furious arena,”--a cover for the activity below and the ground for the action above. The picture establishes the speaker’s view of nature as a complex body with layers that reach beyond its seemingly inactive surface. The language used by the speaker to describe the lily leaves, marked by alliteration and subtle imagery, also demonstrates the speaker’s appreciation of the beauty of nature’s “outer surface,” the face it shows most plainly to the casual observer. The speaker also personifies nature by describing it as a “lady” with “two minds,” clearly those that exist above and below its surface. Study these, the speaker notes to himself, and only then can one develop an accurate understanding of the heart of nature.…

    • 597 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Defiant Nature Of Thistle
    • 825 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Defiant Nature Of Thistle

    Every plant, without exception, is similarly defiant, according to the second stanza. Moreover, it is determined to revenge itself upon whatever destroyed the parent plant. The violence of its determination is expressed in the term "resurrection". This paradox, that it brings…

    • 825 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    How Do Poems Use Language to Create Imaginary Worlds That Question Our Understanding of Human Nature?
    • 1009 Words
    • 5 Pages

    How Do Poems Use Language to Create Imaginary Worlds That Question Our Understanding of Human Nature?

    Unexpected connections between a previously ordinary object and something that at first seemed totally unrelated can paint a picture of another context within which we can better examine our own existence (Hirsch). This is demonstrated quite well in A Martian Sends A Postcard Home in nearly every stanza, with the alien viewpoint of everyday things leading to considerable thought about the things we take for granted. The line, “At night, when all the colours die” is a particularly vivid way of describing day turning to night and implies the alien land must be either bright all the time or of another dimension where night and day have no meaning. Similarly, Poppies describes a field of flowers in terms that evoke the passage of life itself, with lines such as, “Of course nothing stops the cold, black, curved blade from hooking forward--- of course, loss is the great lesson” describing night falling, the death of a flower as it wilts and the blade of a scythe, invoking images of the Grim Reaper (Wu).…

    • 1009 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Plants Traveling
    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Plants Traveling

    “The Private Life of Plants: Traveling” was a useful documentary to help clarify my understanding on how plants manage to spread their seeds and germinate. I enjoyed watching the different time lapses for the species of plants and it helped me to see exactly what happens rather than reading it in a book or seeing a simple picture. I was amazed at all the different mechanisms plants used to travel around and not stick to just one area. I did not expect the pointy spines of plants to allow them to grip ahold and move over almost any surface and can travel up to three inches in one day. It was interesting to learn how bird cage plants are still able to spread genetic material even though the plant itself is already dead. I feel I have a better understanding for the different mechanisms plants use to travel such as using the wind to be carried up to several miles. I never knew that height played a key role in how far seeds can travel and how much of an advantage it can be. I was amazed that the cottonwood seeds that travel along the water could end up in Germany. I never knew just how long these seeds could survive and how much they are able to withstand. I found the fixed wing gliders and helicopter comparison to be extremely fascinating and I was able to relate this to my personal knowledge. It was interesting how the narrator said even today, engineers are not able to replicate these forms. My favorite examples were the plants that build up pressure and eventually explode, shooting their seeds out. I see plants all day every day and feel I never knew how complex they really are. Burrs always get stuck to my horse’s hooves and the bottom of my pants and I now understand I am helping spread the seeds in all different locations. It was interesting to watch some of the mutualistic relationships between plants and animals as well. I always assumed animals destroyed plants but this is not the case at all with the elephants and the Acai…

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics