Well when you put it that way. . .

So before I say this, I just want everyone to know, I do like nature. I love our earth, I think it's beautiful and I do care about it a lot. I want it to stay beautiful, and I want the people of the world to respect this place that we were give.

HOWEVER, I REALLY can't stand hard core environmentalists. The ones who eat, sleep, and breathe nature. You know the kind of person I'm talking about. For some reason, that "type" of person turns me away from saving our earth because they are so persistent rather then making me want to make a difference. It is possible to make a person such as myself want to save the environment without being so pushy, and I feel like Everything Is a Human Being by Alice Walker, is the PERFECT way to persuade a person to care more about the earth.

The way walker writes, is beautiful. Focusing on the first half of her piece, I can can tell she is trying to persuade her readers to care more, and look at nature as more than just a log with a few leaves attached to it. She wants us to look at snakes as more than just a green slimy, object. She is writing about certain situations to sort of "hit home" with us. Talking about the HOME of the snake--making him seem more like a human being, more relatable. We certainly would never drive to drive a human being out of his home over and over again, day after day.

More specifically, I really enjoy the very beginning of this piece when she talks about the trees.

"I love the trees", I said.
"Human, please, they replied".
"You butcher us, you burn us, you grow us only to destroy us."
"But I, as an individual, am innocent, I said." (661)

How typical of humans is this? Never willing to take the blame for anything. Of course we are innocent. This part kind of makes me angry because the trees have a point! None of us are completely innocent of hurting, destroying, and using nature. Even the strongest of environmentalists use wooden desks, or sleep on wooden bed frames. Reading this section also made me a little sad, the way Walker uses personification to get through to her readers seems to be really effective. It woke me up a little bit, and I feel, has helped me view nature in a different light.

Overall, the way Walker writes, and the stories and examples she uses are so much more effective and so much more useful to me as a reader than any article or documentary I could watch on saving the environment or conservation. By making nature more "relatable", and familiar, she really gets her point across.