In both essays, the writers show the same idea that humans and animals cling and recreate things or places which they know strongly. In "the brown wasps," Loren Eiseley indicates that the human being has a habitual behavior of being on their space and time. They did so "because without them man is lost, not only man but life." (Eiseley 240) In other words, humanity intrinsically wants to evidence their existence by tracing and create memory. Eiseley supports this nature by showing that poor sought to occupy same bench spontaneously. It is just like old brown wasps "creep slowly over an abandoned wasp nest in a thicket." (Eiseley 240) She further extends this essence other animals: a field mouse recreated the hole to show its existence; pigeons came back in the same old train station. She gives such examples because she wants to tell that every organism clings to things and places thoughtlessly, and therefore, establish self-cognition of existence and reassure them.
In the same path, E.B. White wrote his essay that he revisited...
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