Coyote Valley Spring, Control Burn, Source

From reading the poems Coyote Valley Spring, Control Burn, and Source in Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island I was able to relate to many themes. In Coyote Valley Spring the themes expressed were climate, wilderness, and actions of nature.  It seemed that the message that Snyder was saying was that the animals and the rest of nature were doing fine without any human interactions and that the humans were away and not hurting the environment. He was almost talking about a concept of Island Civilization where the humans only lived in certain areas and did not interact with the rest of nature. In the poem Control Burn the main themes were helping the environment and creation of new life. The main message in the poem was that humans need to limit their impact on the environment, but there are some things that we must do that can help it. In the poem Source the main theme was nature as it is. The poem was talking about a time when the Spanish had not even come to America and there was a better world in nature.