and graceful as a doe, and I am free of the strictures of “civilization”, so-called. (The Ancient Child 17-18)
Describing herself with the features of nature is a most unique character which shows the love, awe and admiration for nature. If nature becomes the part of an individual, naturally the destruction caused to the environment will become much lesser.
Grey’s poems and letters reiterate her oneness with nature. The novel’s final chapter reflects Locke Setman’s bedrock experience with nature.
He could smell a thousand things at once and perceive them individually.He could smell the bark of trees and the rot of roots and the fragrances of grass and wildflowers.He could smell the scat of animals here and there, old and new, across the reach of thehills.He could smell the sweet saps and the stench
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Citing this as seminal statement one could clearly state that Momaday’s upbringing in Arizona and New México, has produced a good influence on his writings. The quality of Momaday to consider his physical and spiritual existence, profoundly influenced by the "remembered earth" originates particularly because of the desert Southwest and the Great Plains where the Kiowa tribe once flourished and he was brought up. The art of Remembering and worshipping the nature is adopted by Momaday from his Kiowa ancestors. His grandmother’s influence and his spending of time in Navajo reservation have modelled him to be a person with spiritual attachment towards nature. The Way to Rainy Mountains reflects this ecological element of remembrance. Both nature and his grandmother are mentors of Momaday. Along with nature, his grandmother also acted as a means through which he strongly related to his native landscape. In The Way to Rainy Mountains, he remembers his visit to his