~Sammy Bigelow, Class of 2024

Protecting the Wild

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.” 

~Reginald Holmes

If you like something, you should be able to give anything to save it. Under the White Sky, by Elizabeth Korlbert, called me to read deeper about my thoughts of saving nature. The themes of this book, Challenge and Saving, are both important in this book. 

Reading Under a White Sky called me to think more about nature and what I can do to save it from invasive species and global warming. I had never read a book that was this deep in sustainability and nature. But after I read this book I was thinking about nature in a different way. 

When I started reading Under a White Sky, it was just another assignment that I was forced to do. But after a little bit I started feeling more connected to this book. It was an awesome story with themes that made me want to read more. While I was reading about scientists trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish I was thinking about what I can do to help stop global warming and save animals that are going extinct. 

This book made me feel thoughtful about the fact that the earth is slowly dying and will die if we don’t do anything. There are also many species of fish, birds, and land animals that are slowly getting less and less common. If we don’t do anything to stop this then the earth and all its species will die. 

Before I read the book, Under a White Sky I was not really thinking about what I could do to save the environment. But Now that I have finished the book, I am starting to think more about what I can do to save earth and the animals that live with us.