She states that the volcano “lay and watched her forests being cut and her elk being hunted and her lakes being fished and fouled and her ecology being tampered with and the smoky, snarling suburbs creeping closer to her skirts, until she saw it was time to teach the White Man’s Children a lesson ( Le Guin, 2000, p175). In another essay titled “A Literature of Place” by Barry Lopez goes with the idea that nature is being removed from our world slowly by human kind. He refers to a unique type of writing that many know as “nature writing” where one tries and write about one’s relationship with their land. Barry Lopez’s essay and Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay both explore the idea that n

Lopez believes to secure an intimacy for a place you must “be silent, put aside the bird book, the analytic state of mind, any compulsion to identify, and sit still.” (Lopez, 2000, p183). Ursula K. Le Guin had a very intimate side with nature when she experienced the volcano eruption mentioned earlier. She kept the intimacy by watching and keeping track of the eruptions and realizing the reasons this may be happening. She sat still, was silent and put things aside that she believed were less important in life, just like Lopez suggested to people who want to keep the intimacy with nature.

For Lopez, he states “My imagination was shaped by the exotic nature of water in a dry southern California valley; by the sound of wind in the crowns of eucalyptus trees; …by banks of saffron, mahogany and scarlet cloud piled above a field of alfalfa at dusk; by encountering the musk from orange blossoms at the edge of an orchard; by the aftermath of a Pacific storm crashing a hot, flat beach” (Lopez, 2000, p182)

Lopez refers to a good way to stay connected with nature. He believes a great way to stay connected is to “become vulnerable to a place. If you open yourself up, you can build intimacy” (Lopez, 2000, p183). Staying connected with nature will build up intimacy and make humans closer to the land one lives on.Nature is more powerful than humans could ever dream of. It is not just an accessory to our lives as we w

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