Term Paper on Environment Ethics

 

 

Environmental hazards are the most alarming problem of the current time, which has trapped humanity in its clutches like an octopus. It is need of the hour that environmental values are strengthened and the preservation and conservation devices be founded to cope with the situation. Change in the situation demands change in the conceptions, perceptions and approaches of the entire global community. For this fundamental change, the education of all through literature is inevitable. We are lucky enough that our literary personalities are not only well aware of the problem and their duties but they are with great vision and ahead of time.

Joseph Wood Krutch
After his recognition as a professor and drama critic, Joseph Wood Krutch, lately switched over to nature writings. He chose desert as his subject and enormously contributed on the theme. He says beautifully in the first chapter of his book ‘The Desert Year’ (1952), “There is all the difference in the world between looking at something and living in it”.

Edward Hoagland
Hoagland exclusively focused on animal life in his crusade as a naturalist writer. He was an honest writer with minute details of life. He says, “I love life and believe in its goodness and rightness, but I seem not to be terrible well fitted for it—that is not without writing. Writing is my rod and my staff. It saves me, exults me.”

Hal Borland
Borland selected seasons as subject for his valuable writings. He wrote many magazine articles, poems, essays and stories as well as a number of books. About his works, Edwin W Teale commented that Borland’s “books are always like a breath of fresh country air.

Ernest Thompson Seton
Seton was an illustrator, naturalist, writer and educator and contributed to natural history in bulk. He published sixty books and almost four hundred magazine articles. He narrated the life stories of animal from animal’s point of view. Later in life he called himself, “Black Wolf”.

Edwin Way Teale
Teale was the most influential American naturalist writer who selected insects as subject. Ants, beetles, snakes, toads and flies dominated his work. This optimistic writer once noted, “On this somber day, when winter’s conquest seems so imminent and so conclusive, I am remembering the calm preparations of the insects around me. Nature, in all her acts, reflects her faith in the future".

Edward Hoagland seems the most interesting naturalist writer whose essays moves one beyond imagination and text. Although his essays are not simple and extremely tough to understand but once one start to grasp it, it can be enjoyed like anything. For instance his essay "Howling Back at the Wolves" begins with images of wolves’ legs and ends with images of human wolves emerging on a city street for a business lunch.

 

 

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