Analysis Of Chapter Summary Of The Article 'Spring' By Rachel Carson

The book “Changes in the Land” by William Cronon in summary is based on environmental history where science, social science, the way society affects human nature and vice-versa is all combined into his narrative. With that being said, he believed that humans are dependent on nature, and nature is something that’s either made or broken by humans. Same goes for vegetation and land area. He wrote about conflicts between two cultures, where when the settlers came in to New England, they took over the Native American’s home. The power the settlers had over the Native Americans grew so strong that it got to a point where the rule of usufruct was put in place, where Native Americans could make use of any natural resource on earth as long as it wasn’t being needed by another person.

Plants and animals are very important to human life. Plants and animals developed natural forms

This book was focused on the concern of pesticides that industries, along with us as individuals, have been dumping (both knowingly and unknowingly) into water. Carson was concerned that the chemicals which the farmers spread on their fields, and even the chemicals we use in our homes (among others), in the end, might come back around and harm us. The beginning of the book tells a story of a place, that was once so beautiful, turned dead and ugly due to a “strange blight that crept over the area” and destroyed everything. Later in the book, she goes on to explain that chemicals, particularly one known as DDT, are the major cause of environmental damage and the near extinction of

"The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place" (Carson 64).

Spring reflects a deep communion with the natural world, offering a fresh viewpoint of the commonplace or ordinary things in our world by subverting our expected and accepted views of that object which in turn presents a view that operates from new assumptions. Oliver depicts the natural world as a celebration of wonder and awe, the almost insignificant wonders capturing the true beauty nature beholds.

Elton also figured out that a large number of plants is needed to supply a smaller number of plant eating animals. Such animals, in turn, provide food for an even smaller number of meat-eating creatures. He called this natural system of food relationships a “pyramid of numbers.” His contributions have made things better because we can use this “pyramid of numbers”

Carson’s primary argument is that the ecosystem is unable to adjust and rebalance itself due to the rapidity of the introduction of chemicals into the environment. She points to the common knowledge that it took hundreds of millions of years for life to evolve to its current state. She goes on to explain how, given time (eons), the environment adjusted to natural dangers such as radiation emitted from certain rocks and short-wave radiation from the sun, but that it is impossible for the earth to adjust and rebalance in the face of man-made threats in the relative miniscule timeframe of decades. Her appeal is both logical and emotional. Logically, chemicals sprayed on croplands, forests or gardens will kill not just “pests” but other living organisms, and that some amount of these chemicals will end up in ground water, causing problems for anyone or anything that depends on this water. Emotionally if the possibility of permanent gene damage, which cause deformities, cancers, and early death, is not enough to encourage a second look at this issue then there is no hope for the planet’s future.

In her novel Silent Spring, conservationist Rachel Carson writes, “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” This demonstrates Carson’s ability to express the beauty and incredulity of nature. As a scientist, she knew that nature has the strength to restore itself. In Silent Spring, she wants readers to consider the serious dangers that pesticides could have on the environment. The use of these artificial chemicals to control insect populations release harmful substances into the air, water, and soil, and have the potential to poison animals. Carson describes chemicals as the “sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation” (Carson 15). Carson later explains how poisons

Plants and animals are part of human's everyday life, their in almost everything humans use. There was a time that plants and animals were used only for food and some basic needs such as clothes, and protection. Later the doom of animals and plants would be when humans became smart enough to know how to domesticate both plants and animals. Animals who were once free roaming became controlled and plants who once were wild became secluded to a certain amount of land. This revolutionary idea brought about farming and invention of new tools as well as new purposes for animals besides meat. Domestication was important to early humans it meant that food surplus could be controlled and regulated. This is evident from the many fossils from settlements being found containing animal bones and seeds.

Years of looking at a tree and seeing a photosynthesizing plant and returning to our air-conditioned homes, has lead us to feeling that we are separate, even fundamentally different from our natural landscapes. When taking the chance to consider Maine as more then a place, to consider it a her, then the once 2-dimensional landscape becomes three dimensional as all the systems and processes of ecosystems also act as the organs of a human would. Trees center this landscape for Maine by working as her physical and spiritual heart, acting as the connection between all of the natural non-living systems, and the rest of the body. That remaining piece of the body being the humans in the landscape, the arbiter of action for the entire entity. As this concept expands, it encompasses all parts of our world, and placing us humans at the head of an evolving story. One that only we can control, and one that will decide whether Maine, as well as our planet will continue living with a beating heart or will slowly wither

In an excerpt from Loren Eiseley's excerpt “How Flowers Changed the World” she shows the great truth in this. She describes the earth as “vast drifts of stone and gravel, the sands of wandering wastes, the blackness of naked basalt, the yellow dust of endlessly moving storms”(Eisley,1) before the creation of flowers and other greenery. Originally the Earth was not he beautiful ball of blue and green that we now know but a desolate wasteland much like Venus and Mercury but that all changed when flowers came to exist. We too were a change but not necessarily a good or a bad one. We were created because of the existence of other beings.

Muir discusses the power of nature; his description presenting his viewpoint of plant life (par. 4). Muir writes that plants like the Calypso evoke emotions in people. He believes his encounter with the Calypso was unforgettable, and more outstanding than his experiences with meeting people. John Muir gracefully writes in paragraph three about his

During the nineteenth century, Humboldt was one of the few travelers that discovered the world and recorded different physical landscapes, climates, and oceans. A few decades later, Humboldt’s discovery of the world motivated Darwin to make further observations of the world specimens and the new theory of “Survival of the Fittest.” This new knowledge brought Marsh (1864) to understand that humans are the destructive power, and that they had destroyed the Earth’s ecosystem for thousands of years. According to Marsh (1864), This new knowledge brought Marsh (1864) to understand that humans are the destructive power, and that they had destroyed the Earth’s ecosystem for thousands of years. According to Marsh (1864), This new knowledge brought Marsh (1864) to understand that humans are the destructive power, and that they had destroyed the Earth’s ecosystem for thousands of years. According to Marsh (1864), people destroyed mountain reservoirs, fertilized land, killed many animals, cut many trees, and overused the natural resources of the

April Morning by Howard Fast is a story about the Battle of Lexington, and the day to day struggles of Adam Cooper. The story takes place in Adam's hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts. The novel opens with a glimpse into the daily life of the Cooper family. As Adam comments on the harsh perfectionist that is his father, his only escape from his father's high expectations is his Granny Cooper and his next door neighbor Ruth Simmons. Adam confuses his father's constant criticism with the feeling that his father hates him. On top of the situation at home with his father he overhears word that the British army has landed and the local militia were up and ready to fight for the battle was inevitable.

The Earth is full of natural resources and it was generous enough to sustain life for living organisms on it for many years. By the technological advancement of the last two centuries and the exponential population growth, Humans needed to dig deeper in oceans and plant more land to sustain life on earth. Agriculture helped sustaining people’s needs in many fields and mankind relied on it for years. Human’s greed to get the maximum profit from the land, lead to deforestation of the green areas and replace them with less complex systems ,Which lead to the loss and damage of species. Beside the environmental damage due to increasing the use of fertilizers and the exponential growth of some species over others. The human’s system simplicity and organization wasn’t really beneficial, because deforestation for agriculture lead to imbalances in nature like climate change. In addition to the endanger of species and extinction of others, which are non point sources pollutants that are hard to stop. Moreover the increase use of fertilizers for a better soil, increased nitrogen in the soil and lead to eutrophication and altered the nitrogen cycle for plants and reduced the richness of autotrophic species. However agriculture lead to the exponential growth of species like crops over others like weeds, insects and microbes due to the continuous elimination for a better harvesting season. All of these