Natural Influences

I think the first thing that really defines a writer’s view of nature is his or her eyesight. Now, it may be a bit obvious, but it makes a huge difference. As one of the unlucky bunch that needs glasses and contacts to see, I know how big the difference between failed eyesight and perfect eyesight is. Thought many writers have eyesight as bad as mine it is close to impossible for them to not feel the sublime or pastoral in nature. To be able to sense the feeling of nature is a trait that everyone has, but when they feel it is the true difference between people. It is because of authors past histories that they view nature the way they do. Most fears and joys in life seem to come from past occurrences, and certainly these carry a huge affect of on the perception of nature if they are connected to nature. It's because of these fears and joys, you can quite easily change the subject of a passage as the writer. What I mean to say is that it is because of these past events that the author has the final say in how the subject is presented. Two people can’t see the same thing and have the same thought, so there is no way to expect that two authors will write about the same subject in the same way.