Pyle and Ackerman

Wow, these two are sooo different, yet they do have their similarities.

I enjoyed Pyle, and now I am wondering what this says about me. Reading this tonight made me giggle because I sat on my porch last night with a friend discussing this exact same topic. He said to me at one point in our conversation, "The Earth will be just fine, Sami, we are the ones who are going to be extinct". And most likely he and Pyle are correct. Which makes me think...."what the hell and I fighting for?" I guess I still believe that even though we have gotten as far as we have, they maybe we have a chance to help nature begin healing it's wounds. Although, according to Pyle, I think he would say that I was straight up full of it. It really makes you think that as humans we are truly not part of nature, or maybe because we are humans we are not a part of nature. Although, I guess our coming and going is in the natural cycle of species and creatures of the Earth.

As for Ackerman, I enjoyed her reading as well, but it was very different. After reading Pyle, I was a little turned off by what she was saying as she talked on about the reasons why leaves change their color and how they do this. I thought to myself, "Oh scientific terms, blah, blah, blah" But there were many parts of her writing that I really enjoyed. I like when she say, "Colored like living things, they signal death and disinigration....They are as we hope our own fate will be when we die: not to vanish, just to sublime from one beautiful state into another." I liked her comparisons about how humans view the natural world and choose to see what they want. They do not acknowledge that they changing of the leaves is its preparation death and winter, but flock to see the beautiful colors changing along the coast, not really knowing the reasoning behind it.