The Pines

It sounds like the point to his writing was to describe his trip to the pines forest to see for himself whether or not it had been touch by man.  He didn’t believe that a forest untouched by man could still exist so close to such a large city.  When he traveled through the pines he discovered that this forest had been touched by man.  Two gentlemen had taken up residence in theforest and were thoughtlessly leaving a path of destruction.  The two men felt that they had a since of entitlement to live as if they didn’t have any responsibility to keep their trash picked.  Instead of finding a pristine forest McPhee found it littered like it was a junk yard by the two men.  His description of the house, yard, and how they lived proved his point that the forest had been touched by man.  Even though the two men may have felt that their way of life was non intrusive to the forest and excused their behavior by saying that this was Gods by referring to the water as gods water.  I believe McPhee supported his point well.