Place and Awareness in Turtle Island

In Turtle Island, the poems O Waters, Gen, For the Children and As for the Poets, brought to my attention the themes of environment, place and awareness. Just as before he carefully explained to the readers how everything looked in nature from flowers and water to hills and moutains. However, he also wrote about the future of the environment and if humans wanted to survive the altered Earth they needed to be aware. They needed to know what to do when they are face to face with nature so to speak. I got the idea that he felt people should be aware mostly out of the poem For the Children. Based on the topics he chose to discuss and how he discusses them makes it obvious that enviornment, place and awareness are themes in Turtle Island.