f's perception of nature? David Malouf has been greatly influenced by the issues surrounding the treatment of indigenous Australians in the 1970's, where their view of the natural world is seen as the renewing and sustaining value the wild provides. Therefore, it is evident how Wordsworth and Malouf demonstrate the power of nature on humanity's relationship with the natural world.
             The importance of humanity's relationship with the natural world is portrayed through the main characters interaction with the environment. The different contexts of the authors make Wordsworth's relationship with nature not nearly as physical as Ovid's. He is a gentlemen from the early nineteenth century, and he would not "bush bash" to get to places. This is a reflection of his context and culture as this is what he is accustomed to. William Wordsworth and his poems are within context, both he and his poems are running around one place and period of time, that is, the Romantic period. In this period, "Nature was seen as a living organism of which man was a part", there is therefore a strong feeling of affinity with nature which Wordsworth had and which Ovid later developed. His world is much more civilized, "green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke". This demonstrates the native elements of his world. There is a contrast of environments in 'Tintern Abbey' and the landscape around Tomis in 'An Imaginary Life'. Wordsworth's environment appears to be fertile and suited to agriculture because it is native however, Ovid's has not even been explored. A contrast to Wordsworth's idea of interaction with nature is the child in 'An I
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