Kasey Arnold....Amphibeans

Making Nature Sacred 41
I really did not understand this as it was explained in class. I went to the text. It still did not register. We are amphibians? What does this mean? I understand that there is an internal conflict within humans, but how does this relate? After mulling it over, I have found an answer. It lies a couple of sentences before this line: “Humans are creatures destined by nature for death but drawn by the spirit toward eternal life” (41). This is profound. Here we are, creatures who will die, but something inside of us has the want to live forever. We are in between this “temporal and timeless” area where we can go back and forth. It is a very existential point of view, and extremely interesting to think about. We are bodies made for earth, but our soul is made for everlasting. It is by this that Anne Bradstreet says “We belong and do not belong to ‘nature’” (41). We have been born into nature and thus, we are part of it. But in the same way, we are not like everything here on this earth. Everything will die. We too, will die. But we have the ability to be timeless.
Thus, we are amphibians.