Natural Environment In Turtle Island By Gary Snyder

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without. the path is whatever passes-- no end in itself. the end is, grace-- ease-- healing, not saving. singing the proof the proof of the within" (Snyder 6). Wherever we are, we can feel the "silence of nature within" if we only stop and let ourselves feel it. Nature is not just about the outdoors, it is about carrying the feeling of nature with you all the time, just like Gary Snyder does in his poetry.
In the country, or even in a park, we can feel the wind, see the sky, and feel the dirt under our feet, but we can see more, too. We can see animals like squirrels as they hurry around looking for a tidbit or two. We can see insects like ants searching for food. Bees buzz in flower blossoms and birds sing, or hop around the grass. This is the entire natural environment around us, but it is also another world right inside our world. We could learn a lot from the natural environment, because we have lost a lot of the understanding of nature that we had hundreds of ...

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or once passed through a bear) / And then it would be more like, when it belonged to the Indians / Before" (Snyder 19).
For example, we use fossil fuels to run our cars, our power plants, and our homes, and we are using these fuels up much faster than we ever have before. Snyder quotes some statistics about energy and fossil fuels in his book. "The U.S. has 6% of the world's population; consumes 1/3 the energy annually consumed in the world. [...] A modern nation needs 13 basic industrial raw materials. By AD 2000 the U.S. will be import-dependent on all but phosphorus. General Motors is bigger than Holland. Nuclear energy is mainly subsidized with fossil fuels and barely yields ...

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