There Are Twin oceans Were Beauty and Horror Meet

Spirituality is threaded throughout nature. When we see our world we cannot help but feel emotion. Fundamentally we are all trying to live and survive. Many people want to avoid the gruesome and darker parts of our world. Pain is part of our nature and the nature of the environment.

In the book "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” Dillard continues to show us how she watches and experiences nature through her observations. She is not judgmental of the cruelty that she describes, because she realizes that in actuality acts of violence in nature are not cruel but individuals trying to survive. “There are twin oceans were beauty and horror meet…. Did the crawling Polyphemus have in its watery heart one cell, and in that cell one special molecule, and in that molecule one hydrogen atom, and round that atom’s nucleus one wild, distant electron that split showed a forest, swaying.” (Dillard, p. 71). This quote is a reminder that at our rotes we are all connect and that both beauty and horror weave a wed around each other. Very little of nature is cruel, it may be harsh or horrifying but rarely do living things harm for only pleasure. Dillard speaks of the female mantas killing the male as they mate, it may be gruesome but it is not cruel. In fact we as mammals cause fair more pain for pleasure then any insect and we as we are most likely the cruelest of all, maybe this is why it is easy for us to only see the good in nature, or pretend not to notice the ugly side.

Ginger Kathrin’s observed, in her book Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies, a stallion brutally slaughter a fuel, this act seems cruel but it is hard to know the circumstances that caused the fuels unfortunate death. When we think of horses we would never imagine an act so brutal. All we see when we think of horses is them playing or rearing towards the sky, but always magnificent and beautiful. Every animal has the ability to turn violent, but it is often animal’s need to survive that drives them to cause pain not there intension and I think that is often misunderstood. It may seem cruel but killing is the way to survive. In the bible we see again and again stories of God bringing pain to people but is it cruel?

I feel that Dillard truly travels into nature to find answers to her questions. She finds her spiritual believes in nature, so she makes pilgrimages into the environment to speak with nature and find answers to her questions. I find peace in nature, even as I see the cruelty that it can inflict. I find spirituality in nature. Nature is awesome and leaves me breathless it has great wonders far greater than anything described in the bible. I too make pilgrimages into nature to find answers. I am not blind to the violence that occurs, but I am fascinated by it. When I observe nature I ask why and what is so amazing is often I will never find out. I can search for spirituality and life lessons in the mist of the environment. I love nature as many love God.