Mehul Chaudhari - Naturalist Essay

It was in the afternoon, a vibrant sunny afternoon heading down this quite, friendly but busy street I was enriched by all the surroundings of nature. The temperature must have been low 70s, as I saw many residents of Lincoln Park outside walking around as I was. I started my journey at Halsted and Armitage were I reside. From there I went down Armitage past Seminary, make a right up on to Fullerton. I knew my walk in Lincoln Park would be filled with nature, because of the effort many residents put in their landscaping, and environment around the town. I was able to encounter nature as I stepped outside and tightly closed the knob. The air that I breathe, the sunlight that I exposed, and everything I see is nature in a general statement. Also a mosquito that landed right my right leg is unfortunately also nature . When looking at the ground I saw, beautiful flowers planted with varies assortments. I saw many residents walking their golden retrieves, and poodles. I did take more detail into what I was observing today than usual, I don’t usually get to take an hour and really examine what I’ve learned, and things you may see but overlook in your head. I believe when the sun is out, shining bright, the skis look clear, the wind is mellow, and the grass is green, I feel as this is a great start to my day, and I am more upbeat in a sense to start my day early in the morning. If the day was pour raining like today, my mood wouldn’t be as happy, as it can be until I got inside, were nature was limited. Talking about our interactions with nature, I believe personally my interaction with nature is happening every second of our life. We are nature, to a point. Without nature we couldn’t survive on this planet, or universe. We need the air to breathe, we need food to survive, and we need water, these are all interrelated with nature. In both writing Kuo’s and Murir’s they both had good points of view on nature, and their interactions and relationships with nature. How they felt we can work better with nature, and how it really has a social impact on us. I think I was able to connect with Kuo’s writing this time, because he provided a closer to home piece of writing. He mentions how public aid housing is effected trees outside of their building, how family’s feel safer because they are easily able to communicate outdoors with each other. He tends to talk more about urban environments which was the one I made my walk through. I feel as everyone’s mood was better because, the nature surrounding us in Lincoln Park is beautiful. The differences in both writing were mostly the point of view they were trying to represent. Murir’s writing showed his personal interactions with nature, and his trip through Yosemite. He was showing more detail of nature, and the wonderful features of nature. Kuo’s was more informational then anything. He provided us with in-depth research showing social interactions with nature. He showed the difference between crime in areas with greener settings then crime in areas with little nature. It helped us figure out what’s best for us, and how to efficiently utilize nature to help out our everyday life.

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