kelsey Garegnani -The practice of the wild

Decomposed

I like the way he starts his section with, "life in the wild in not just eating berries in the sunlight".  He sounds mocking of the people we too often see who look at nature, not for what it really is but for what they perceive.  They pick and chose what parts of nature to see ad it seems al rainbows and butterflies.  As he quickly points out after though nature is brutal, unforgiving, and unfeeling.  There is a lot to the wild people do not even take into account, both in its nature and content.  He says, "life is not just  diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates; its also nocturnal, anaerobic, cannibalistic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative".  While it is true many people see nature for the more obvious animals, it can also be a metaphor for the preoccupation with the more obvious aspects of nature paying no mind to the inter-working and brutality.  But is it just because we don't see this that we overlook it? Or is it possibly that we chose to block from us that which we find disgusting or obscene?  I think we see nature as the sacred place w can escape to from our corrupt and disappointing world.  We don't want to see brutality and unfairness like we see too much of all ready.  In an attempt to escape from one place to another we overlook those things that don't want to see.  What we don't realize is that the wild, though maybe harsher and more merciless than we hoped, is a cycle continually repeating in perfect orchestration.  The The brutal attributes should he a attribute regarded as adding to the sacredity of it...putting us more in awe...not a scary disappointment.