Human Interaction with Nature in the Works of Aldo Leopold and Elizabet

Human Interaction with Nature in the Works of Aldo Leopold and Elizabeth BishopThe poet Elizabeth Bishop and the naturalist Aldo Leopold serving a keen power ofobservation, a beautifully detailed behavior of writing, a love for the beauty of character, and an interest in how people act with the natural world. Like Leopold, Bishop examines piece interactions with nature on both(prenominal) the individualised and the ecological level. On the individual level, a hunters stir with the animal he or she is hunting changes his or her attitude toward nature in both Bishops poem The Fish and Leopolds demonstrate Thinking Like a Mountain. On the larger level, both Bishop in her poem The Mountain and Leopold by means ofout the Sand County Almanac envision the design of human beings in relation to the rest of the natural world as one of exploration and construe through science and art.In both Bishops The Fish and Leopolds Thinking Like a Mountain, the psyches contact with a wild anim al comes about through hunting. In theory, hunting is asport, a challenge of fang against bullet (Leopold 129), in which the animal has a fairchance of escaping. In reality, however, there is no real challenge for the hunter in eithercase. Leopold and his companions, pumping lead into the contract (130), kill the wolf notby skill but by the sheer number of bullets, while Bishops speaker testifies, He didntfight. / He hadnt fought at all (5-6). Thus, both call into pass whether their huntingis actually a sport.Both Leopold and Bishops speaker argon initially unaware of the true value of thecreatures they hunt. Leopold writes, I thought that because few wolves meant moredeer, that no wolves would mean hunters paradise (130). Bish... ... of human beings in nature is to explore, perceive, understand, and give avoice to the world well-nigh them through science and art. They suggest this both throughwhat they say in their writing and by the very act of writing, which is an act of per ceptionand interpretation of nature. However, their interpretations of the mountains messagebeg the question of whether they are interpreting it correctly, or whether they are simplyattributing their testify views to landforms. Perhaps their works are best seen as aninvitation to their readers to explore the natural world for themselves and create their owninterpretations. Contact with wild creatures might change our attitudes tooBibliographyBishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. refreshed York Farrar, Straus andGiroux.Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York Oxford University Press, 1949.