While reading what Ogungbemi had to say about the African culture’s attitude towards nature, I found myself thinking almost exactly what was said and also found that I was asking the same questions. How do we know much we really need so we don’t take any more than that? Who is the one who judges how much that is? And if people are taking more than they need, what will be their penalty? Ogungbemi says there are three basic elements in the ethics of nature- relatedness; reason, experience, and the will with reason being the guiding force among them. I can agree with what he’s saying but I can also disagree. While I think that reason is a strong force, I also think that the will is just as equal or even more of a force. With reason, you can look at situations and decide what best to do for yourself, but without the will to follow through the actions made by your decision through reason, you cannot hope to get ahead and achieve your goals. In this text, it seemed like the African culture’s goal is to become more sustainable and to be able to co- exist with nature and treat it with concern for it’s worth. But then we are faced again with the problem of finding out the true value of the land that we count on so much for our daily lives. I am sure that someday we will be able to find out this true value of the land and find a way to use it without taking too much of it away from our future generations.