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Assignment:

2-On page 747, Terry Tempest Williams details the ritual of bird watching with her grandmother and how it shaped her understanding of the land. What rituals shape your experience of "place"? Hiking? Camping? Fishing? Gardening? Hunting? Farming? Describe those experiences in as much detail as possible and reflect on how they've changed your perception of environment.

When I was younger we took vacations during the summers and went camping in the fall and spring. We would always go on vacation to the Colorado, Wyoming, Montana area. We would hike in the mountains and walk around everywhere. Frequently we would just hike out with food and have lunch and come back by night. The wilderness and openness there is a vast change from even Des Moines. There are no vast expanses of concrete, no huge developments of crappy houses, and very few people. The people that are theEnglish 250re understand life considerably more than probably 90% of the people from densely populated cities and those working in corporate jobs and the such. While most people in the US and most of western civilization life has become a scrambling for material goods and money. No one fixes anything themselves anymore, few people actually know how to build anything anymore. It seems that people go about life expecting everything to be done for them.
    Now in the sparsely populated regions of the US there are no supermarkets every mile, no gas station on every corner, no fast food places, none of the "necessities" of the standard person. They understand that things are not given to them on a silver platter, that you shouldn't plow over a field to build a mega mall or a housing development, and if you are wasting away your life in an office building then you might as well pass away.