Environment

During this semester i learned alot more about the environment than i ever thought i would learn. We covered multiple pieces of work that exemplified the environment. We even did an essay of the environments effect on the behavior of people. The topic for that essay says it all, the environment does have an effect on behavior and in “Coming Around The Bend” by Sarah Rabkin i learned alot in regards to the environment.Rabkin discusses that the domestication of land is our own fault. People believe that we have ruined land to make unnecessary things.Rabkin states, “We, wielders of combines and chainsaws, bulldozers, and backhoes, have indeed domesticated ourselves from our surroundings and now we are asking, with increasing urgency, what we have lost in the process.”(Rabkin 43) Rabkin is saying that by using all of this machinery we have hiden ourselves from the natural wonder of the environment and the pureness of life the way it once was. Rabkin is very old school and she is used to doing things the old fashion way and now she is seeing all of these new inventions and she is baffled cause of the fact that they are not necessary for survival and people were able to live without these inventions so why is it so difficult now. She also believes that all of these new buildings and cities have deprived people from acknowledging the true value of nature.