Desert Solitaire: a Season in the Wilderness

The author of the book retract Solit haloe, Edward Abbey, talked frequently throughout the book about the dish of reputation and ship canal that humane beings are destroying the natural beauty of the public we live in. The counselling abbey views constitution is in a steering that is best experienced by actually being out in nature, taking a hike, ahorseback riding, or bicycling. He believes that bulk who use the luxury of their cars on bivouacking trip will not get to experience e trulything that nature has to offer. Abbey check outs the beauty of the natural world in a way that roughly human beings are unable to because they do not spend time exploring nature.From the very beginning of the book Abbey shows his extol for nature and all his creatures when he befriends and goffer snake. Or when he was is in awe of the old moon-eyed horses wild manner, independence, and beauty. To stand by his love for nature he says I prefer not to kill animals. Im a humane Id instead kill a man than a snake. (pg. 20) Abbey believes that humans are destroying the beauty and wonder of nature and he is disjointed when he finds out they are planning to build a major road through loathlyes National Park.Abbey believes industrial tourism is becoming a bigger problem to all national lay. In abbeys printing he thinks motor vehicles should be prohibited on the grounds of any national monument. we have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, to concert halls, cheat museumswe should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places (pg. 65). Abbey believes that the save way to truly experience the beauty of nature is to walk through, oscillation ride through, or horseback ride through.As said before abbey is a humanist and has not sympathy for the elderly who travel to national parks for vacations, he says they had the opportunity to opine the country when it was still relatively ripe (pg. 67). He also has no sympat hy for children who are too smooth to ride bicycles and too heavy to be borne on their parents backs. (pg. 67) Abbey is able to see nature in a way that most race cannot. close to humans tend to overlook the little things, but abbey will see the beauty in it.Many people think rocks are dirty and unlovely but abbey finds beauty in just their names, the very names lovely chalcedony, carnelian, jasper (pg. 74). term looking at the Delicate Arch most people would see it as just a big arch do out of rocks. But to abbey it is so much more than that. He compares it to dilapidate remnant of a sandstone fin, a giant engagement ring cemented in rock, a bow legged pair of petrified cowboy chaps (pg. 44). Some people who view the Delicate Arch will find God tour exploring, others will see entirely Lyell and the uniformity of nature (pg. 5). To abbey the Delicate Arch and other objects of nature remind us that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ou rs (pg. 45) Even though nature is beautiful, calm, and serene it also has another side that is harsh, violent, and cruel. Abbey experiences this side of nature with blazing heat, sand storms, and a flash flood.When he find a dead tourist underneath a tree, which shows just how cruel the forego can be. But according to abbey the man was fortunate to have died the way he did, he envies him. To die in the open under the tackbefore this desert vastness opening like a windowpane onto eternity surely that was an overwhelming stroke of rare good endangerment (pg. 267). For abbey to envy the man for dying that way is another example of his love for nature. Most people would look at that situation as no-good and calamitous, but abbey sees the beauty and peace in it. Abbey also experiences the cruelness of nature when he himself is forced to spend the night alone in Havasu. begin Nature can be a very cruel and cruel woman who does not have sympathy for anyone.If a person is unfortunat e enough to see this side of Mother Nature it can only lead to a sad ending. Fatal. Death by starvation, slow and tedious. (pg. 253) While most people have comes to enjoy the luxury and comfort of an alter society, Abbey has chosen to live the life opposite of luxurious and easy. He would rather rough it out in the desert than big in an air conditioned office. Abbey has experienced nature in a way most people will never have the opportunity to. He sees the world for what it was mean to be, all nature, nothing else.