Northern Arizona University/Environmental Ethics/Journals/Rosie R's Journal

Before subjecting you to my journal, allow me to explain it. I would take ideas from class discussions or readings and use my drawing skills to make a representation of how I pictured it. Every one of them took thought and I spent a lot of time on each drawing. Words of caution, however:

1. It's taken me ages to figure out how to actually get the images onto here, so excuse the delay, and (since I'm writing this before I finalized my method) I apologize if viewing them causes any inconvenience to you.

2. Some of the pictures contain writing, but upon scanning them (by the way, you have no idea how much crap that gave me) I found that it's almost impossible to read some of them, so as soon as the pictures get up, I will retype what I wrote below each image. None of it is much, they just kind of add to the drawing.

3. I was as green as I could be and drew pictures on the back of other pictures, so if you find yourself thinking you can see through the paper, you're totally right.

Alright, wish me luck with getting them all up, and I hope you appreciate them all.

...ethical criteria have been extended to many fields of conduct, with corresponding shrinkages in those judged by expediency only.

A man is faced with a new environment where all other individuals are strangers. He explores the community selfishly, ensuring his own well-being.

This exploration includes that of the land.

His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community.

Men communicate with one another, developing trust, friendship, and maybe even love. Beyond cooperation, man's relationship to another man becomes emotional.

The land becomes respected and cultivated by men.

...but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate.

Men may treat land as something to be respected and cultivated, but I wonder if they could ever communicate with it such as they do amongst other men.

There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it.

-The Land Ethic

Leopold's Land Pyramid

Throughout the years, what do trees remember?

(it's sideways...sorry...don't know why) Life in the Desert

Beautiful vs Sublime

We can look upon a landscape and see its physical features. We are free to decide if they are pleasing to look at or not. That is when the landscape becomes either beautiful or sublime--when WE decide.

Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Thoreau's goal is to find the chief end of man--and he hopes for the rest of the world as well as himself to discover the chief end of man.

The chanticleer wakes the world up to the truth, or it supposedly does. For there is a large part of the world that has not sought out the truth. Maybe they are not being awakened by the right chanticleer.

The Hermit and the Poet and the things that they see.

How deep is Walden Pond?

Why has nobody measured Walden's depths before?

Is it because they are afraid to know the depth of something larger than their perception lets them imagine?

Or because the possibility of infinity is too astonishing, and to find a measurement would remove the wonder?

There is a system of laws in nature, laws that govern both individual things and larger wholes. These laws have been present throughout history...

...since thinking beings evolved ...since the formation of galaxies ...since the formation of natural elements ...since the Big Bang

Now humans are thinking beings following laws of nature, but they can make their own laws, like creating more Big Bangs on smaller scales.

The Oversoul

At the time of a tragedy, the grief is all-encompassing. We feel as though no other less major tragedy is effective because of our grief taking over anything else.

Within time, the grief is no longer immanent. We can walk away from it and forsake the horrible feelings.

Possibly there is regret for the loss of grief. The feelings that were so real before are now only memories and do not affect us emotionally as they once did.

''The lords of life, the lords of life--I saw them pass in their own guise, like and unlike, portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, and the inventor of the game omnipresent without a name; some to see, some to be guessed, they marched from east to west. Little man, least of all, among the legs of his guardians tall walked about with puzzled look. Him by the hand dear nature took; dearest nature, strong and kind, whispered, "Darling, never mind! Tomorrow they will wear another face, the founder thou! these are thy race!"''

-Emerson, "Experience"

The Sayer The Knower The Doer

In Emerson's perspective, these personalities represent the love of beauty, truth, and good, and one does not exist without both others. For it is true that the effect does not form in anything but cause, and cannot be exhibited without operation.