Proffesor Bump wrote in his essay, Dualism vs. ..., "Recombination of opposites' is the conscious generation of creatiity by dwelling on the interdependence of apparently mutually exclusive opposites and the larger whole which contains them both"(p.346). This is what I am attempting to do today at the creek. i don't know exactly how I am suppose to do this but I'll try. Waller Creek is a serene place in nature. Tall trees and winding streams. When I try to think of what is opposite of this place, all I can think of is man. Man-made things or animal life is opposite of nature. I talked a little last time about man's destruction of nature. However, I must try to restructure my thinking in order to see them as "mutually exclusive opposites" so I may see Waller Creek for "the larger whole which contains them both." Animal, man, and nature have evolved together at this creek. This place was once only nature, according to our planet's history. Over thousands of years, animalhas evolved to live off the land and nature.Now, man has built an entire uniersity around it. What is the purpose of all this? Is nature here for man's sake or is man here for nature's sake? I guess neither of the two is more important, they are of equal importance. I really don't feel like I am relating to this concept at all. I try to look at this place as a whole, and I am not fully understanding "whole", I guess. What I see when I try to look at the big picture of Waller Creek is a thriving habitat for many small animals like birds, squirrels, fish, minnows and insects of all kinds. Each animal is engaging in their own daily routine of survival. I find that they all depend on this place for food, shelter, or protection. Among the animals is a ast growth of wild plants and trees. I see this nature growing healthy, lively,and beautiful.I do notice that the plants could not survive here without the nutrients of the earth and water. Animals also help protect plants against insects killing them. In return the small animals get food from the plants. It all seems to be coming together a little bit. I have to stop and think when it comes to man. Man has its destructive nature. I see sewar pipes with runoff into the creek which affects all plant and animal life at the creek. Yet, also man depends on nature and animals also for shelter, nutrition, as well as for relaxation by just being in nature. We depend on nature. In a way, nature depends on us to feed on it in order to keep a balance of growth between species. If we didn't exist, wild life would become overpopulated and too wild. I don't know, we have our destructive nature. It's hard to tell if nature would be better off without man. However, when I look at Waller Crekk today, the place seems a bit different. It seems to be unified by all those different mediums in nature. They all appear to be dependent on eachother for something. Nature is even slightly dependent on man or animal life in general. As Disney movie "The Lion King" said, "We are all a part of the circle of life." Burch says in The Vocabularies of Nature that, "only a fraction of geological time has been the resource of man"(p.347). Waller Creek must have been a magnificent place in the ages before man if it existed at all. However, evolutionhas shown that in order to grow, nature brings out many new life forms. We are all out of nature and unified by our dependence to it and the relationships between all things. Okay, I kind of feel like I've lost my train of thought for a second, and I think I have gone too far with my thoughts. However, I see Waller Creek harmoniously unified in all aspects of life. Many men and women come here to relax and feel closer to nature and their spirit. It gives us peace and pleasure. The animals live happily here amongst the trees and water. The water continues to flow through ages of time. It's nice to know that the life of this place will live on past my own for all generations to appreciate. All things are peaceful here.