Silent Spring...man vs. nature
While nature in America has evolved, so has mans relationship to it. Since the earliest American settlers, their has been two conflicting viewpoints on nature. Native Americans or the Indigenous people view the natural world as part of themselves. They believe that both are part of a continuous cycle of giving and receiving. To them, nature is perfect and does not need to be modified. The contrasting view is that of the early American settlers up to present day Americans. Most Americans see nature as something to perfect, considering themselves outside of nature. Most feel that it is their right to rule the land and to modify it to better humans. Perrin explains both relationships that humans have with nature. Silko and the film The Emerald Forest reveal the attitudes and values of the indigenous people. Carson presents Americans attitudes toward the natural world, and suggests that these attitudes change if we want to survive. In Noel Perrin's "Forever Virgin", Leslie Silko's "Pueblo People", and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", the two relationships of nature introduced, will raise issues involving consequences between the relationships of man and nature, and what must be done to insure mans surviva
Acid rain affected humans as well as the animals. ) Our manmade substances are being used to kill the animals that we don't want around. Our interactions with nature are a result of our belief that we rule it. The relationship with the natural world consisted of both giving and receiving. They believed that they were both part of a continuous cycle. The Native Americans did not want to change anything. Not only were these agencies developing hazardous chemicals but they did not even try to find a non hazardous natural alternative. Silko explains that the Laguna Pueblo people (Indigenous people) see themselves as one with nature. Wilderness is an example of pure untouched land; therefore, wilderness is pure nature. Man has taken it upon himself to rearrange the ecosystem. They saw it as, "the bounden duty of their descendants to turn to turn [the land] into farms, gardens, and alabaster cities" (377 P.
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