How humans see nature?

Humans from a very young age have been taught that nature, space, and the environment are
nothing more than science. That everything that exists in nature such as animals, plants and stars are
all caused by processes, evolutions, and adaptations. That everything has a purpose and a
destination, that animals are science and therefore are programmed by nature to do what they do
routinely, continuously, and naturally. Although this is a basic knowledge that we all have, for other
people it goes beyond just science, for example in the collection of virtual books " The natural
world" we find three very striking texts which share a theme and point of view in specifically, these
books are "Hope for animals and their world", " When I heard the learn’d Astronomer" and "My
life as a bat", in these texts we can see how the perspective of the authors differs from the
perspective of ordinary people. These authors do not take animals, nature, and space only as
science, they also relate them to their life and how mystical nature is in all its cases. Minding this,
this report will focus on how nature is not only science, but it can also be viewed from a mystical
perspective.
To begin with, I will first talk about the first text of this collection by talking about the
authors perspective and view about nature and space. The poem “When I heard the learn’d
Astronomer” written by Walt Whitman is a poem that talks about a lecturer which gives an
astronomy lesson which seems to be boring for both the lecturer and audience due to the complexity
of the lesson, lecturer decides to go outside and admire the sky. For example, it says in the poem,
“in the mystical moist night air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” In
this cited sentence we can see the second half of the poem where the lecturer is outside admiring the
stars, according to some context found in google, this poem might have been influenced by his
rejection as a teacher on high education, this was because Whitman preferred a more intuitive
learning as he opposed to the traditional lecture-based education. Whitman’s love for nature and
outer space was not just about mathematical equations and data, it was something beyond, he felt
something mystical on his inner body when watching at the sky, this was because he analyzed
through his eyes by asking questions to himself about existence of space and nature. This
perspective is acquired by few people, for example, we know the recognized scientist Albert
Einstein, a scientist who admired and studied science by creating his own equations and conclusions
about what happens on space, all this would not have happened if Einstein had not been personally
interested in looking at the sky, and admiring it, analyzing it, contemplating it and studying it in
order to motivate himself and achieve the studies that he achieved.
 Secondly, I will talk about the next two texts of the collection, the informative essay, My life
as a bat. In this text Margaret talks about her thoughts and evidence about bats and how when once
used to be a bat. For example, in line 95 it says, “If you ask a human being what makes his
flesh creep more, a bat or a bomb, he will say the bat. It is difficult to experience loathing
for something merely metal, however ominous. We save these sensations for those with
skin and flesh: a skin, a flesh, unlike our own.” We can see that Margaret all her life has
been interested for bats, that she even beliefs that she was a bat in her other life, most
people might see bats as flying rats, but Margaret sees them in a deeper way, she sees them
as strong, hero and extraordinary animal, this is because of her investigation and admiration
to them. Now, I will talk about the last book of the collection that I will be analyzing, the essay
Hope for animals and their world. This essay talks about how Jane wants to prevent the extinction
of the American Burying beetle, as well she emphasizes how great these animals are and their
relation with humans. For example, in line 50 it says, “And other creatures, too—they allowed him
to breed boa constrictors when he was nine years old!” in these 2 lines she emphasizes how beetles
are closely related to humans when talking about childhood. As it is evidenced, she aside from
including parenthesis she as well uses exclamations marks, positive words, and technical words.
This sentence shows us how the author sees the beetles with other view more than an insect, she
sees it is as an extraordinary animal because of what they do, how they live and the similar
behaviors to humans.

To conclude, these texts can teach us a lesson on how we perceive nature, animals and
space, people have always been focused on the scientific meaning of each living thing and piece of
mass.