Critical Thinking Journal

Barry Lopez Learning to See

The article by Barry Lopez Learning to See ' is a masterpiece of the author 's feelings during his numerous trips into the wild . It is a valuable essay included in the collection About This Life Furthermore , it is a manifestation of sincere adornment by the nature on the whole and the author 's reasoning on it , in particular . In fact , the article was not that spontaneous for the author , because Barry Lopez got through a long process of reasoning on why people should learn to see the

features of nature as being put in deeply in their minds . The author makes emphasis on that the nature can be vividly recollected through positive vision . It is something to get through personal feelings , not just to take a photograph . Going over this thesis statement , Barry Lopez encourages a reader to get into the matter of his article . In fact , it is dedicated to an individual 's reasonable impression of any photo exhibition which once made the author reflect his own ideas on why people are apart from the gist of nature as such

The author is highly motivated to answer the question of why personal reflections on what an individual can see is more precious than reflecting such episodes of nature or life events on a photograph . The author is at a dead-end when meditating between what he saw and what he wanted to write down to a notebook (Lopez , 2010 . The question is that the wanderer...