Do you really know all there is to know about the natural world? Why is it so important for us to connect to nature? When people are outside, I bet most of them do not take the time to actually take in all the nature that is around them. They don’t explore everything that the natural world has to offer. When you stop and take the time to explore and focus your attention on all the trees, flowers, or rocks you will discover there is so much more to nature than what you see. It is important to connect to the natural world because of the beautiful scenery you will have the privilege of seeing, it allows you to escape from daily pressures, and there is so much history you can learn from it. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold and “Winter Creek” by Kathleen Dean Moore describes all of these reasons for why it is important to connect to the natural world in great detail.
I love the example Kathleen Dean Moore gave …show more content…
Aldo talks about all these trees, flowers, and plants that contain history but he really focuses on this one oak tree while talking about history. He talks about all the stages of history this one oak tree went through. Aldo tells us that the oak tree went through the Babbittian decade, the stock market crash, the ‘Big Sleet’, droughts, fires, world wars, and so many other things. Some of the stages of history that this one oak tree went through are times in history that we are being taught about in school today. Aldo Leopold states, “We have cut the core. Our saw now reverses its orientation in history; we cut backward across the years, and outward toward the far side of the stump” (17). This passage reveals that as they were cutting down this tree and cutting deeper into each layer they were cutting through history that lives within this tree. Next time you are outside next to a tree stop and think about all the history you could possibly be standing next