Destruction of Nature by Humans

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We as human beings are very fortunate to be living on this planet that we call Earth. We toil over the land, and in return we receive provisions off of which we live. Even though we get all that we need from this bountiful land, we still for some reason feel like we need to alter it. In doing so we also end up ruining the land that we thrive on. We reshape the world to fit our individual needs, and the earth just doesn't work that way. Everything on this planet has a purpose, from the largest animal to the microscopic bacteria, and without it, it is impossible to live in harmony. In "Arizona and New Mexico", a text written by Aldo Leopold, he talks about how man has developed the untouched land in the White Mountains of Arizona and killed animals in New Mexico, and now the lands are trodden on and it is not at all the way it used to be. In "A Very Warm Mountain", a text written by Ursula K. Le Guin, she writes about how the earth is destroying itself because of what the human

s have already done to the land, by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens and there is nothing that we as humans can do about it. The Earth is being destroyed everyday whether it is by humans or the earth itself. There are both devastating and dramatic affects th

On May 18, 1980 Mount Saint Helens blew her top. People who took eruption personally and superstitiously thought that the mountain was angry with man for abusing her land. "She lay and watched her forest being cut and her elk being hunted and her lakes being fished and fouled and her ecology being tampered with and the smoky, snarling suburbs creeping closer to her skirts, until she saw it was time to teach the White Man's Children a lesson. And she did." (Le Guin, 1980, p.175). In fact the eruption was quite a natural event, and it takes place in nature on a daily basis. Yes, we as humans do not take care of the land as well as we should but the mountain did not erupt merely because of this fact. On the other hand, maybe God was trying to teach us a lesson or two. In that we need to have a better relationship with the land we live on. We need to become one with the land, so that we all take it personally when it is not treated well. So in that thought we need to better pre!

at come about when the Earth is changed in such a tremendous way.

serve our land, treat it as if it were a part of us. Nature is constantly destroying itself as a sort of cleansing process. So we as humans should not put any more strain on Mother Nature than she needs.

All in all, the Earth is here for us to enjoy and for all of its inhabitants to live together in harmony. If we try and wipe out a species of animal just because it "gets in our way" is not the way to live. We were all put on this Earth for a purpose. We can't go destroying the land just because it does not suit us. Once we all as humans start thinking in thi

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