Gary Snyder has 2 sides to his writing. One side is dark, negative and insulting to humans and what problems we have caused in our society/environment today. Towards the end of Turtle Island is poems are positive and hold important messages.
In The Great Mother, and a bunch of other poems in this novel he is basically talking about the wrong that everybody has done to our environment. He says in the last verse, "she looks down at their hands to see what sort of savages they were.
In Control Burn he talks about how life was when Indians were around and how back then the world was in much better shape then it is now. His last line hints that he wishes that it would go back to how it was when indians were around.
In For the Children, it is a message to children that it is up to them if our society even exists in the future. He says that we are declining as a whole and that the most recent generation are the ones to fix that.
The environment is obviously an important theme through Snyder's writing. He makes it very clear that he wants something to be done to help our society or even somehow go back to how it was years ago, which in my opinion is hard to do with all the developments that have been made. He even has a fact sheet on page 31 about the U.S and facts about our country.
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