Jack london and modern day environmentalist groups We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1065 total…not only builds his story, but also gives the reader a small clue to what he may have actually believed in. In the story The All Gold Canyon, it is easy for the reader to draw conclusions about London's view on the environment. Through the vivid descriptions, extreme contrasts, and connotations it is easy to say that many of the ideas of the environmental groups of today coincide with many of those of Jack London.