We need wilderness to nurture our souls (Goodall, p180) .This land is a gift from god. Our land supplies us with food, shelter, and water. We must appreciate it, and love it. Mother Nature has done nothing but loves us back. We must learn not to bite the hands that feed us. According to Goodall (2009) “We are treading too harshly on the earth and consuming and degrading too much of the planet” (p.181). People have destroyed the state’s beautiful Everglades, and obliterated our natural land forms with new developments, and we have done nothing to stop it. Brown (2009) stated “Today we need a realistic view between the economy and the environment.” (p. 17). The relationship between people and the environment in “A Land Remembered” is destruction, exploitation of the land far beyond human needs, and the natural resource being non-existent. People began to develop new technologies that required natural resources, which we eventually abused. People developed new technology without being environmentally conscious and had no sense of awareness. As human beings, we selfishly chose long-term benefits of destroying Mother Nature while our environment suffers the consequences of our careless actions. …show more content…
The Everglades is composed of one point five million acres of saw grass marshes, mangrove forests, and hardwood hammocks dominated by wetlands (USF, pp. 1). It is home to endangered, rare, and exotic wildlife. In South Florida, the water once flowed from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee, then flowing to low-lying lands to Biscayne Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay. The slow moving shallow water from the Everglades created a mosaic of marshes, ponds, and forests. The Everglade years of natural development played a huge in the balance of our ecosystem (USF, pp.