Barbara Kingsolver Nature

Man’s wonder for nature stems from eons of observation and and interaction. Nature, as humans know it, is a scientific marvel. The complex processes of unique organisms, the wonders of the self sustaining ecosystems, even as humans expand into space, we still cannot quite comprehend the beings on our very own planet. Perhaps our lack of understanding stems more than what science could attempt to explain. To explain the being of nature in only scientific terms would be a gross inaccuracy, rather nature could best be described in ways of emotion. Feeling. Nature cradled humanity at its beginnings, and still continues to sustain us to this day, even after the careless destruction humanity unleashed. Humans gain much material resources from

Beauty is seen as aloof, and distant, often unrealistic and unachievable. But what beauty does is engage us into deeper understanding, perhaps in ways that are easier to digest and comprehend. As established before, empathy is manifested as understanding particular things deeper than the surface level. Barbara Kingsolver, a scientific author, recounts the wildflower blooms of the Arizona desert in the year of 1998. A scientific marvel, at that, she explains the “nuts and the bolts” of the floods and the cycle of plant life. But her approach is what makes this essay significant. She often uses metaphoric language and a poetic easiness to enhance her descriptions of the simplistic beauty that is the wildflower blooms. For example, Kingsolver ponders this, “...Had these seeds just been lying around in the dirt for decades? And how was it thay, at behest of some higher power than the calendar, at all there came a crowd.” (Kingsolver 47). Of course, later on in the essay Kingsolver explains this concept scientifically. But she leaves this tibbit for the readers to understand, that even with or without scientific purpose, one could admire the complexity of abstract beauty. Looking at these gorgeous wildflowers blooming in a place synonymous with a wasteland, one could take many “one-liner” truisms from