Glorification of Nature in Wendell Berry's Essays and John Muir's Travelogues

Abstract

cological literature paves the way of eco-awareness in the mind of contemporary people. It aims at knowing the earth. Actually, the description of the natural entities is an effort to understand ecology as all other social issues intersect with the complex issues of natural world. The whole understanding of ecology depends on interconnectedness. The new understanding comes through the long experience of the natural world and its ways. People start to realize the essentiality of nature in their life only when they know it. Eco-awareness implants on human mind and the ideas of human connectedness with nature makes a response to the need of humanistic understanding of our relationship with natural world. John Muir and Wendell Berry try to help us understand nature, and human relationship with nature by glorifying it. Their writings are based on their direct observation and experience. By interconnecting human beings and natural world, both the writers tryto germinate seeds of eco-awareness in the mind of contemporary people. The words that they use are originally linked to natural and oral culture. And the words provide remedies to resolve loss, tension and paradoxes of the world. So, their writings are agreat source of inspiration for modern people who are negligently overlooking at their permanent home-nature.