value of nature
Sami Ali
Mr. Ringo
English 11-12 E
21 September 2013
Nature and its Value In the Three Readings Nature has a life of its own, yet we don’t realize it; in fact we are surrounded by it. Nevertheless we human beings give a blind eye to nature in which we live in, deforestation, pollution, global warming, all of these factors are affecting the nature in which we live in, yet we don’t care, and continue in wrecking it. What is life without nature? Nature is a resort where people of all ages flee to in order to release their tension and keep all the worries of the world behind their back and enjoy the tranquility of nature. Nature, a home in which everyone belongs to. Three readings, “Fish Story,” “River Walking,” “Walking,” written by Rick Bass, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Henry David Thoreau respectively, all talk about nature and their experiences with it, and their are many themes which relate to all three readings, but there is one which is interesting to talk about; a theme in which all the authors of the story have a valuable recreation which allows them to interact with nature, and with each interaction a value of nature can be depicted. In the reading, “Fish Story,” by Rick Bass, the author along with other subjects in the story, have a wild feast of a large cat fish, and it is there where he, the author, interacts with nature and begins to understand the physiological meaning towards it. “And studied it as I moved the silver stream of water up and down its back,” the author is basically depicting a picture where he is watering the fish in order for him to keep it alive, thus he is in control with the creature’s life, “giving the fish life one silver gasp at a time,” and it is then when he begins to understand the value of nature. For he realizes that nature deals with life and death, “giving birth in the summer blue sky,” for a fish, water is its life, for us humans, oxygen in the air is our life, and once deprived, death only awaits. “ A fire was
Mr. Ringo
English 11-12 E
21 September 2013
Nature and its Value In the Three Readings Nature has a life of its own, yet we don’t realize it; in fact we are surrounded by it. Nevertheless we human beings give a blind eye to nature in which we live in, deforestation, pollution, global warming, all of these factors are affecting the nature in which we live in, yet we don’t care, and continue in wrecking it. What is life without nature? Nature is a resort where people of all ages flee to in order to release their tension and keep all the worries of the world behind their back and enjoy the tranquility of nature. Nature, a home in which everyone belongs to. Three readings, “Fish Story,” “River Walking,” “Walking,” written by Rick Bass, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Henry David Thoreau respectively, all talk about nature and their experiences with it, and their are many themes which relate to all three readings, but there is one which is interesting to talk about; a theme in which all the authors of the story have a valuable recreation which allows them to interact with nature, and with each interaction a value of nature can be depicted. In the reading, “Fish Story,” by Rick Bass, the author along with other subjects in the story, have a wild feast of a large cat fish, and it is there where he, the author, interacts with nature and begins to understand the physiological meaning towards it. “And studied it as I moved the silver stream of water up and down its back,” the author is basically depicting a picture where he is watering the fish in order for him to keep it alive, thus he is in control with the creature’s life, “giving the fish life one silver gasp at a time,” and it is then when he begins to understand the value of nature. For he realizes that nature deals with life and death, “giving birth in the summer blue sky,” for a fish, water is its life, for us humans, oxygen in the air is our life, and once deprived, death only awaits. “ A fire was