Rivers of Eden

In chapter ten, The Rivers of Eden in Eisenberg’s Ecology of Eden, he discusses how humans have created walls to keep themselves and nature separate. There are different thoughts he has on this, but the most prominent is the thought that this has occurred to keep ourselves protected from the unknown. In my opinion, we are made from nature, and therefore should not be afraid of it. A wall should be made to separate human civilization from nature to keep the nature and environment safe, not the other way around. We as humans create a lot more destruction towards the environment than anything in nature could ever do to us, and therefore a barrier could be beneficial but for protection of the environment instead of protecting human kind.