Manipulating Nature By JumboMoos Discusses futile human attempt to control nature is. Uses "Prodigal Summer" as support.
Title: Manipulating Nature By JumboMoos Discusses futile human attempt to control nature is. Uses "Prodigal Summer" as support. Category:Literature Details: Words: 671 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Manipulating Nature By JumboMoos Discusses futile human attempt to control nature is. Uses "Prodigal Summer" as support.
Manipulating Nature
Ever since man took his first step onto the Mother Earth, he has been trying to force her to obey his rules. This is a major theme in the book Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. As humans, we think we are of higher intelligence and therefor we have the right to control whatever we see fit. Humanity does not realize that the natural community has rules it cannot change, thus humans create their own rules and attempt to manipulate nature to benefit themselves.
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…showed last 85 words of 671 total…of their food supply. Humans like to think they're in control but "Nature doesn't give a hoot" (86).
Despite our claim to authority, humans can only succeed when obeying the laws on Nature. Humans are only a species of natural communities, not a master of them. Creating laws in an attempt to control nature is foolish because nature has its own rules that control what humans do; we just need to realize that we are not apart from the natural community, but a part of it.
