My Views on Nature
I believe that nature has to include humans. Not necessarily human culture, which includes buildings and beliefs, but it must include humans. If not, then who will we appreciate nature with? Will we just sit there by ourselves and think that by avoiding other humans, we are more a part of nature? No, then we become spectators of nature.
Spectating nature has always been something I have hated. My dad used to take me hunting and fishing, and I would think it was awesome with my dad there. Then when I got older he would just leave me there so that I could kill a deer for myself or I could go fishing and catch things by myself, which I could, but it was not the same. I began to find it extremely boring, even to the point it became obnoxious to be out in the woods with the mosquitoes, with a slight chance of maybe almost hearing a deer that I would not have a shot at. I would get frustrated. These memories caused me to resent the woods or being out in “nature.”
So I disagree with Thoreau. I do not believe that separation from humans will cause us to be closer to nature, it just makes us resent think that we are not. I do not like the rain, whether it is essential or not. I am not amazed by little ants scampering everywhere; I am amazed by how humans socialize together and can be part of nature. I feel that if there is no one for us to share nature with, then we will just become another animal. We just end up staring into the wild with no reason to be there other than avoiding social interaction because we have nothing in common with it. We should not be spectators of nature, but we should all be a part of it; we need to be together.
Spectating nature has always been something I have hated. My dad used to take me hunting and fishing, and I would think it was awesome with my dad there. Then when I got older he would just leave me there so that I could kill a deer for myself or I could go fishing and catch things by myself, which I could, but it was not the same. I began to find it extremely boring, even to the point it became obnoxious to be out in the woods with the mosquitoes, with a slight chance of maybe almost hearing a deer that I would not have a shot at. I would get frustrated. These memories caused me to resent the woods or being out in “nature.”
So I disagree with Thoreau. I do not believe that separation from humans will cause us to be closer to nature, it just makes us resent think that we are not. I do not like the rain, whether it is essential or not. I am not amazed by little ants scampering everywhere; I am amazed by how humans socialize together and can be part of nature. I feel that if there is no one for us to share nature with, then we will just become another animal. We just end up staring into the wild with no reason to be there other than avoiding social interaction because we have nothing in common with it. We should not be spectators of nature, but we should all be a part of it; we need to be together.