The Practice of the Wild Post 2: Tawny Grammar

Snyder during page 65 of Tawny Grammar, talks about the idea of uncritical scientific discovery and how we are quick to believe what is revealed. He also mentions how we believe we are “rootless” and that we do not think with our surroundings but rather by our own brains capacity. I think the point he is trying to get across is that without our surroundings we would not know what to believe and be able to have any kind of relevant thought process. Pretty much everything we believe can be described as a result of what we surround our self with, whether it is positive or negative.

I think another aspect of this section is his attempt to show a need to feel more connected. This feeling should not just be to our family or our local town, but to all that surrounds us: our dialect, the people around us, the culture, and of course, our natural surroundings. He emphasizes feeling loyalty to glaciers as an example, to be able to feel that this glacier is more than a big chunk of ice, but to view it as part of the world that we live in and gain some sort of a connection.