Analysis Of The Culture Of Nature By Alexander Wilson
In the book “The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disneyland to Exxon Valdez” by Alexander Wilson (1991). The author talks about Earth being a meeting place for human and natural economies. Earth is full of resources, a place to enjoy, construct, play and create something. A place called Nature, this book is cultural history in North America, a place describe as nature. Let’s not concentrate on the damage, as there are many things to say. Let’s understand how nature is, how it is discussed, extremely in the environment we call nature. Talks about how powerful the land is. The Author talks about nature and culture and what has happened and what is becoming of it. The natural world is talked about everywhere, as well as photographed
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Some believe that we need to be careful while talking about nature as it is becoming endangered. We should never stop discussing nature, as it is changing and we are the ones changing it. There is a connection between humans and nature and we need to keep that relationship. There are many different ideas of nature that will help us understand the different types of land. Development’s that in the past half a decade has altered our neighborhoods, countryside’s, and forest. Landscape is a way of viewing the earth and thinking about our affiliation to nature. The continent of North America is a section where Canadians and Americans play out the difference between culture and nature. Landscape is something we enjoy and control. The connection to land has been described as domination and greed. The consumption of food and the treat of oil rationing have come with good and bad consequences. The globe has become dependent on resources. North America association with land has turned suddenly. There have been two types of prosperity in the past fifty years, post war and the 1980’s, the outcome of highways in the U.S and through …show more content…
A battle, that was about nature, culture and landscape. That is what the war of Oka was, then becomes society’s views of Canada and North America. But the author discusses things from the economy going back to post world war two and how much things have change today with power plants, highways, and neighborhoods. Reading this was a reminder of what we know is going on, but chose not to pay attention to it. Attention that is needed on the topic as we are hurting out surroundings by taking away our nature and altering our landscape to make a profit and sell some land, build a highway, to take away the resources that we should be conserving. We do not have to cut a patch of the wheat or corn fields for a billboard sign. That’s wasting natural resource we can still use to make a profit, maybe not as much as an advertisement might generate, but it is still a profit. That’s just greed, and power controlling what happens to our landscape. We need to preserve our landscape and natural surroundings. We used to do things manually, like picking weeds, cutting grass. Now we use machines that create pollution and chemicals that do more damage than
Some believe that we need to be careful while talking about nature as it is becoming endangered. We should never stop discussing nature, as it is changing and we are the ones changing it. There is a connection between humans and nature and we need to keep that relationship. There are many different ideas of nature that will help us understand the different types of land. Development’s that in the past half a decade has altered our neighborhoods, countryside’s, and forest. Landscape is a way of viewing the earth and thinking about our affiliation to nature. The continent of North America is a section where Canadians and Americans play out the difference between culture and nature. Landscape is something we enjoy and control. The connection to land has been described as domination and greed. The consumption of food and the treat of oil rationing have come with good and bad consequences. The globe has become dependent on resources. North America association with land has turned suddenly. There have been two types of prosperity in the past fifty years, post war and the 1980’s, the outcome of highways in the U.S and through …show more content…
A battle, that was about nature, culture and landscape. That is what the war of Oka was, then becomes society’s views of Canada and North America. But the author discusses things from the economy going back to post world war two and how much things have change today with power plants, highways, and neighborhoods. Reading this was a reminder of what we know is going on, but chose not to pay attention to it. Attention that is needed on the topic as we are hurting out surroundings by taking away our nature and altering our landscape to make a profit and sell some land, build a highway, to take away the resources that we should be conserving. We do not have to cut a patch of the wheat or corn fields for a billboard sign. That’s wasting natural resource we can still use to make a profit, maybe not as much as an advertisement might generate, but it is still a profit. That’s just greed, and power controlling what happens to our landscape. We need to preserve our landscape and natural surroundings. We used to do things manually, like picking weeds, cutting grass. Now we use machines that create pollution and chemicals that do more damage than