Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Spiratual Relationship With The Nature



The spiritual relationship between humans and nature has existed for thousands of years.   It was started before we were ever born.   Nature is part of us whether we know it or not and it is mentioned everywhere.   Nature becomes part of the human¡¦s life and we are inseparable from it.   I believe it is possible that we, as human beings, can have a spiritual relationship with nature because it is in our blood.   Literature can express these emotions, feelings, and thoughts towards the natural world and it also helps to document the past experiences and assists man in understanding and appreciating nature more and more as the time goes by.
Humans are animals.   We are just as good as all other living things on this earth.   We are no better than the fish, the birds, and the dogs nor the trees and flowers.   We might be smarter, but it does not make us better, and we will never be.   Humans are part of the residences on this planet just like everything else, we are all equal, and share the same rights.   We can not live without water, air, and food such as meat and vegetables nor can other living things.   Surviving all depends on collective memory and cooperation.   
In Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination by Leslie Marmon Silko, she expresses her culture¡¦s beliefs.   She believes that everything in the landscape becomes part of the story and what they are and believe.   There is a story to everything, the stone on the ground, the tree beside the river, and wind brushing through the finger tip. She also mentions that after death we all turn into bone and dust and then we are back into the ground, back to the arms of mother earth.   Our body becomes part of the plant, the others, and everything.   The spirit will last forever up above the earth as a whole.   
In the book called The Education of Little Tree (Me and Grandpa) by Forrest Carter, Little Tree is an eight-year-old boy who has just lost both his parents and been sent to his Cherokee grandparents in the...

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