wonder in nature

Nature.  I don't really like to be in it, but I do love the beauty of nature.  I liked how Professor Corrigan talked about how we have lost the wonder in nature.  I believe we have lost our wonder in a lot of other things too.  Our campus is beautiful and I sometimes think people take that for granted.  I feel like every time I walk around campus I am thinking about how much I will miss how beautiful it is here.  And I catch myself sometimes rushing and just walking and never looking around me.  I feel like people are always in a rush and just use technology all the time and forget to recognize the beauty of other things.  Like on the computer screen Professor Corrigan had that picture of all that green and a waterfall.  Its still on a computer screen and we can be in awe of it, but we can still never fully experience the wonder unless were out there and being in the nature.  In the poem State of the Plant, I feel as if the Richard Hass does want us to recognize the wonder in the world.  By describing all the things that are changing and things going wrong he wants us to appreciate nature and grow a new wonder for it.  By doing so maybe we will learn to be in awe of it again and see God through it. 

Also I knew one of my good friends in highschool and her family were exactly those kind of people Professor Corrigan described.  They said that the coming of the Lord would get rid of the earth anyways so why recycle and clean up the earth.  I asked her once about future generations like her children and she said that God would have favor on them.  I just thought it was so stupid because even if you think that God will have favor on your family aren't we supposed to love others and care for them.