Nature is a reality of life. The definition of reality could be everything that cease to exist in an individual’s life. Because reality means something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily, nature should be a part of every individual’s life. As individual human beings, we tend to forget the beauty that nature has given us and only see objects and subjects we want to see. Nature has existed since the beginning of time and the bible story of Adam and Eve may suggest that an individual came from nature. In the Genesis 2:7, Adam was created by God from the Earth’s dust and Eve was created from Adam’s rib. An individual should be able to connect with nature, because the individual was first created by Earth’s dust. However, that is not the case and an individual usually experience little to no connection with nature. In Martha Stout’s essay, “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday,” Stout mentions dissociation as the possible cause of why an individual is unable to connect deeply and form an identity with nature. In “Selections From Into The Wild”, by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer mentions a story of a young man, named Chris McCandless. McCandless was a recent college graduate who was able to experience and bond with nature, when he decided to trek into the Alaskan wilderness. In “The Mind’s Eye,” Oliver Sacks talk about a men name John Hull, who experienced a relationship with nature after he went blind. Although modern society have made it no longer possible to keep in touch with nature, it is still possible to form an identity with nature. Though dissociation is cause of our inability to form a close bond with nature, it could be the solution using that ability to form an identity with nature.
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... created an identity with nature by being able to figure out that she needed to move on with life. Julia will start to see the beauty of nature and form an identity with nature, once she is able to understand who she truly is. Although modern society have made it no longer possible to keep in touch with nature, it is still possible to form an identity with nature. Though dissociation is cause of our inability to form a close bond with nature, it could be the solution using that ability to form an identity with nature.
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...rch has written great adventures into our journey, it may spell our doom as well. While this lesson is powerful in itself, there is another more powerful and more deeply embedded in the story’s flesh: that of nature’s ability to connect. Nature connects the elements that constitute the earth, it connects ecosystems and people and their environment. Most importantly, however, nature connects us with ourselves.
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Richard Louv, the author of, “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature deficit-disorder,” talks about nature and its benefits to a healthy development. Time Experiencing with nature allows people to have healthy development since it promotes creativity and imagination. It does not take more than a couple of steps outside to see nature. It is all around us. It can even be right outside our window. Leaving the blinds open can bring peace of mind, just by viewing it. As people experience time with nature, no matter the age, they develop greater creativity and imagination. It is like people today fear nature.
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Kegan, Robert. (1994). In Over Our Heads: The mental demands of modern life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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...s seen in the poem, “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” and the novel, The Old Man and the Sea. But a question that still remains very important is whether nature and man can ever coexist in a compatible relation?
Martin, Wendy, ed. "Introduction." New Essays on The (Awakening. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 1988.
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...our experiences: the progress of our consciousness. This progress resolves issues of the self and one’s individual past, heals our psychic pain, and releases us from powerlessness and fear. By accepting the wilderness in ourselves we will understand the wilderness in each other and our connectedness. Nature functions as catalyst, as guide, as test, as teacher. Then opening the spiritual window to grace, we ultimately realize the possibility of being fully human.
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