Ehrlich Vs Thomas

Nature is crucial to understanding life. In Match to the Heart, by Gretel Ehrlich, she is struck by lightning while walking her dogs on a stormy afternoon. She was paralyzed and went in and out of consciousness. In The Tucson Zoo, by Lewis Thomas, he shares research and studies of animal life and nature. Ehrlich and Thomas’ purpose is to inform readers on their personal experiences with nature.
Specifically, Ehrlich’s purpose is to provide insight into her experience with being struck by lightning. Her experience with nature has taught her how react through remaining calm, being calculating, and accepting her ordeal. After being struck by lightening, Ehrlich found ways to remain calm and “sweep the mind of weeds, I kept telling myself- that’s what years of Buddhist practice has taught me.” (Ehrlich 546). In order to survive, she had to be calculating in her quest for help. She slowly and methodically thought of ways to move her limbs and get to her car, where, “at the bottom of
Through his experience he’s concluded that humans must learn to coexistence with nature. Thomas wants people to appreciate nature and believe it’s part of being human, and those who don’t are committing, “a debasement, a loss of individuality, a violation of human nature, an unnatural act.” (Thomas 565). He also learned about himself and human nature through his observations of Otters and Beavers, “I learned nothing new about them. Only about me, and I suspect also about you, maybe about humans beings at larger: we are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well” (Thomas 564). Overall, Thomas wants his readers to focus on the broader picture when it comes to understanding nature. “Much of today’s public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts” (Thomas