Pyle

“Nature doesn’t care. Only we care.” Pg 976.
Thank you Pyle. I have done the kids activity thats like the concept map and stringing living things together, I think it is a great activity and can get the point across that nature is connected. But one thing that has bothered me in the last 3 months is that humans don’t need to be apart of that interconnectedness. Pyle is also saying something similar, if the race of humans end it only effects us, not the way nature wants to run. I think it is something that makes humans unique, (apart from our thumbs), we don’t matter to the earth. We really don’t. Yet we also make everything about us. PLT seemed to be all about resources and how we use trees. How did we get there? How should we change our actions to reflect that? I don’t know.
At one point Pyle comments that humans cannot think about the future. I think that we can think about the future. Not to put Native American’s in a perfect box, and I don’t know so much about now, but think that their actions effect 7 seven generations both in the past and future. The stories and tales are lessons and information being passed on to present and future generations. I think that our Western world has lost something a long time ago that makes us think about us, maybe about our grandchildren but not too much farther then that.