City And Nature

City image is one of the core images in Calvino’s novels, the sculpture of the image of the city can be divided into several main aspects:the traditional City (city of ancestors) imagery, modern city (city of wonders) imagery as well as future city (city of mirages) images. From the perspective of ecocriticism and ecological concepts, several aspects of the image of the city symbolized the fundamental relationship between man and nature and its evolution.Ancestors of the city symbolizes the intrinsic relationship between human and nature, it is not a real city, but a conceptual home. Spiritual pursuit of human groups can proceed on the basis of the city, and get extended in nature.Ecological ideas of modern urban is deviated from that of ancient city, in the modern metropolis, nature is the discipline, natural landscape and civilization achieved reunification at an embarrassing level. However, the combination of nature and culture do not give people living in the heart of the peace and freedom of the spirit, on the contrary, cities are forced to accept the self-denial of spiritual crisis and civilization, until digestion. City of the future is to return to the ancient city, it is a correction of the human self.Modern city likes a gradual expansion of the imminent explosion of balloons, desire almost to overwhelm it, urban residents living with fear and loneliness every day also cannot extricate themselves. The return to ancestors existed is the basic way of shaping city image in Calvino’s Novels, which have a metaphor of nature and the spirit of lean trends.