As in the book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, my personal experience with nature while growing up influenced my understanding about the world and everything that inhabits it. I learned that nature is both simultaneously cruel and fair, taking no “sides” and paying no mind to individuals in its influences. Nature can just as easily benefit one person as it can the next. Where I grew up, on a peninsula surrounded by lakes and trees in Michigan, the different niches provided a diverse view of life. This environment illustrated the busy, chaotic happenings of modern day life, while also giving a quiet, natural landscape without interference from the world. I identified with the author’s opinions about nature and how it can shape one’s outlook on the ecosystem and it’s interconnectedness with life.
The area in which I lived in allowed me to glimpse what only the few northern states are permitted to experience, life cycles. Unlike the this tropical state which we are currently in, weather does not permit trees to change color then appear to pass away, only to wake again next spring. Neither does it contain the chance for all matters of natural life to hibernate, migrate or die in ice covered plains. Only in area that has seasonal cycles can one understand it’s concept towards existing.
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