Berry and Kingsolver

The Wendell Berry piece was interesting.  It seems that he was angry about something and that he wanted to get a message out.  He wanted to tell people to change their actions and it seemed like his goal was to get people to be more friendly to the environment.  The way it was written is poetic and while it helped drive the point, it also made it confusing sometimes with the language.

Knowing our Place is about just that, knowing our place.  Barbara talks about the little hollow she lives and how she is known by everyone, a place she can be in nature, and a place she can be in peace.  Her message is that we should protect nature for all the good things it brings us. She claims that we need wild places.  I agree with that statement and I believe we shouldn't forget about how much nature effects our lives.  The title fits perfectly as we should know our place in the world.

Fecundity

This was a weird story to me.  The way that Dillard spoke throughout the story was very pessimistic.  The whole story just seemed like a way for her to bash on humanity. Dillard seemed to ramble on a lot and the story was hard to follow.  Some of the detail like the blood fluke part was gross and kind of turned me off from the reading.  Overall here claim seemed to be that humans were later to arrive to the party, and when they did, they got in the way of other creatures out there.  She says that we are guests in their home, and that we are the ones that do not belong.