Environmental Literature

“How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left the busy, materialistic world so full of greed and selfishness and, for a little while, could feel myself, as in the early days, a part of nature." Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey We have built a world where nature is separate from us. In our world, we are so busy and worried about the material things that we lose sight of ourselves and our environment. This is important because if everyone is too busy to worry about the environment, our human impact will deteriorate Earth to a point of being inhabitable. It is only when we leave our selfish and greedy world that we find ourselves and get back in touch with nature.

"I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you." - Annie Dillard "Living Like Weasels" I came across this quote when researching about Annie Dillard. I think its an interesting way of thinking that we should live by necessity rather than choice. If we were to live by necessity, a lot of environmental problems would be solved along with other kinds of problems as well. Annie introduced the idea that it is our own greed for the things we want that gets us into the issues we face today. It definitely changed the way I think about the choices we as humans have in life.