Desert Solitaire: a Season in the Wilderness

The author of the book Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, talked frequently through unwrap the book somewhat the cup of tea of reputation and fashions that hu bit beings are destroying the natural smash of the realism we live in. The way abbey views nature is in a way that is best experienced by actually being tabu(a) in nature, taking a hike, horseback riding, or bicycling. He believes that people who use the luxury of their cars on camping trip will not get to experience everything that nature has to offer. Abbey go overs the beauty of the natural world in a way that most human beings are unable to because they do not set down time exploring nature.From the very beginning of the book Abbey shows his hunch for nature and all his creatures when he befriends and gopher 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 human-centred Id rather kill a man t han a snake. (pg. 20) Abbey believes that humans are destroying the beauty and wonder of nature and he is upset when he finds out they are planning to build a major road through Arches National Park.Abbey believes industrial tourism is becoming a bigger paradox to all national parks. In abbeys opinion 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, art museumswe should serve our national parks with the same deference, for they, alike, are holy places (pg. 65). Abbey believes that the only way to truly experience the beauty of nature is to walk through, bike 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 go over the country when it was still relatively unspoiled (pg. 67). He also has no sympathy for children who are too small 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 people cannot. Most humans tend to overlook the little things, entirely abbey will see the beauty in it.Many people think rocks are dirty and ugly merely abbey finds beauty in just their names, the very names lovely chalcedony, carnelian, jasper (pg. 74). While looking at the slender Arch most people would see it as just a big arch make out of rocks. But to abbey it is so much more than that. He compares it to eroded remnant of a sandstone fin, a giant engagement ring cemented in rock, a bow legged pair of petrified cowboy chaps (pg. 44). about people who view the Delicate Arch will find God while exploring, others will see only 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 ours (pg. 45) Even though nature is b eautiful, 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 insolent flood.When he find a dead tourist underneath a tree, which shows just how cruel the abandon can be. But according to abbey the man was fortunate to have get outd the way he did, he envies him. To die in the open under the skybefore this desert vastness opening like a window onto eternity surely that was an overwhelming stroke of rare good luck (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 particular as melancholy and doomed, 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. Mother Nature can be a very cruel and evil woman who does not have sympathy for anyone.If a person is unfortunate enough to see this side of Mother Natur e 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 allay of an industrialized 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 slopped to be, all nature, nothing else.