Dillard starts off the book celebrating the extravagance of nature and of our world. However in chapter 10 "Fecundity", which a term that is defined as the abundance of growth or offspring. Dillard illustrates how this same very extravagance depresses her and drags her down. With life and happiness in life there is always an opposing force of death and depression. She wrestles the existence of suffering, trying to explain it and define it through human mental emotions and morals. She uses well orchestrated repetition throughout this chapter to create a sense of visceral repugnance, she is not repeating words or sentences however she is repeating examples in nature that show true colors of rampant fertility. As well as repetition Dillard uses that of statistics to illustrate a sense of natural excess that is produced within nature. She never really comes to terms with how brutal nature can be however but still chooses to return to the creek rather than human society. She says she doesn't like it but it is a fact that everything that comes to life must at some point die. Completing an ever so abundant loop that we call life. In this chapter Dillard blames evolution rather than her God as the cause of this "wasteful extravagance of natures fecundity".
This term evolution, to me always opposed that of religion as I believed both were mutually exclusive to the other. However after further research and coming across the dualist alternative perspective, giving me evidence stating that humans have evolved to use religion and the use of religion is a human adaptation to life. Under this perspective religion evolved naturally as a way for humans to connect and cooperate through similar ideologies and beliefs. However this type of religious curiousity, more often times than not, reject the traditional beliefs.
The opposite of fecundity, for me is emptiness and poison. Not only does poison inhibit growth and offspring but tends to attack life itself spreading its death and nothingness. Life is a balanced wave, when there are ups there must be downs. With growth comes setbacks and withering. Without out it the world as we know it would cease to exist as populations would exterminate the planet.
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