In McKibben’s “End of Nature,” he describes how nature is ending. We define nature by its separateness from us, its wildness, its beauty and tranquility - just as Williams speaks about in “Ideas of Nature.” McKibben says that by interposing ourselves as humans on nature, we are ending our definition of it as well as destroying the earth itself. The deforestation, production of CFCs, and pollution we cause “deprives nature of its independence, and that is fatal to its meaning,” (58). We have lost what “defined nature for us – its separation from human society,” (64). McKibben uses a structured, detailed argument throughout his essay, employing minute details and historical facts as evidence. He uses examples for support: images from his own backyard as well as arguments from scientists. To express the chaos of a natural world destroyed by humans, he uses an organized argument. Somewhat ironic, however, is that fact that the beauty and wildness of nature that he romanticizes is being replaced by another chaos imposed by order and civilization.