Discuss Helen's love for nature from story of my life
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In this vividly crafted and thoughtful autobiography, Keller's joyous spirit is most vitally expressed in her connection with nature. The Keller household had always been amidst vines, flowers and trees. Right from the beginning, she had been conscious of broad green fields and a luminous sky. During the time of daisies and buttercups, Anne Sullivan would take her to the fields and she had her first lessons in the beneficience of nature. She learned how trees grow due to sun and the rain, how birds build their nests and live, how the animals find food and shelter. Before Helen learned to do Maths, her teacher taught her how to find beauty in every blade of grass and how the blossoming of "mimosa" would uplift Helen's spirits.
The idea of feeling, rather than hearing a sound, or of admiring a flower's motion and texture, rather than its colour, created a great sensation in Helen's mind, Helen herself revealed that anything that could buzz, hum, sing or bloom had a great part in her education. Few could realise what it was to feel the roses being pressed into hands, or the motion of the lilies as they swayed in the morning breeze. Helen would catch insects, pick-up eggs of birds in long grasses, so her life revolved around her natural surroundings.
Helen had filled the void of her life by having 'tree-friends;, Anne Sullivan made her teaching innovative by depending so much on nature. It was the growth of a plant that furnished the text of a lesson. Anne was taken to the beaches and shores and to the frozen lakes, snow fields of English villages. Helen also encountered that nature also has a cruel side to it, and also that Nature, "wages open war against her children and under the softest touch, hides treacherous claws."
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