What does Rip Van Winkle teach us about nature? To start with the Kaatskill Mountains which are a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Now the part that Rip was seeing and talking on he referred to them as a dismembered branch of the mountains as if the mountains were a tree of some sort. The mountains were west of the Hudson River. The mountains had to be of great size in his eyes being that he said, “the mountains were lording over the surrounding country. The mountains were in a constant change, due to the seasonal changes in the weather and the highs and lows of the sun Rip Van Winkle also teaches us how we can dress nature up as if it were a human. The way he did with the blue and purple clothes covering the mountains when the weather is