Audrey Hesson Arch119 2/19/15 Everything Is a Human Being
“While it is treated like dirt, so are we.” -
Alice Walker
The Earth is a place we have to call home, a place that provides us with all we need, a place that without it we potentially couldn’t exist. Alice Walker’s writing opens the eyes on how people carelessly destroy nature. Her views show concern towards preserving nature. More importance should be placed here because everything, as the Indians and Walker believe, is equal and we are all “human beings”. Being someone who has always had a love for nature, I have thought about how much of our planet is taken advantage of, without even the slightest thought of consequence. The things we do to harm Earth in turn can and will harm us in the end. Pollution, extinction, the careless killing of nature, and even playing a part in climate change can all come back to haunt us. As we go about our lives so much of what we do that can harm Earth has gone unnoticed because it is the norm. It is part of what we do to cut down entire forests in order to produce items with wood and to stomp on a harmless spider out of fear. Was it necessary to end that creature’s life? And in the end how much of ourselves are we hurting by eliminating so many trees and releasing pollutants? Walker said, “Our thoughts must be on how to restore to the Earth its dignity as a living being; how to stop raping and plundering it as a matter of course. We must begin to develop the consciousness that everything has equal rights because existence itself is equal.”