An Ecosphical Approach to Forest in Janice Pariat's Everything the Light Touches

Abstract: Janice Pariat’s Everything the Light Touches is an extraordinary literary piece that concerns the perpetuity of nature in different time through the journeys of four different characters across different places. This paper is an attempt to address environmental problems resulted from the evolution of human society and human subjectivity, culture, politics and economy and the act of reduction of the natural resources for material environment by human beings. This paper has looked through the first episode of the novel that how human-nature relationship helps attaining abounding peace and happiness and man’s preoccupation with forest and plant life can explore the astounding beauty and mystery of nature and its diverged aspects. Forest has occupied a considerable space in this episode as well as deforestation is a major concern undertaken by the central characters. Ecosophy demands a broad environmental awareness propagating the ideas about the requirements of our earth and our responsibilities to sustain it through reviewing our activities. Keywords: forest, deforestration, envirionment, ecosophy