1, In this paper, Mary Oliver's poetry is discussed and analyzed to illustrate her exploration of "thingness" in her feminine writing as it reawakens our consciousness of the intrinsic value of nature.

2, We are both persons and things. Our thingness comes to us through our body.

3, The point is not just about the thingness of picnic tables versus ideas, though that is an important difference.

4, Exploration of "thingness", how respect for nature should see nature as a separate and equal other, is an important theme conveyed in Cixous' feminine writing.

5, Things only have thingness -- and no-thing only have no-thingness -- in the spacetime of this universe in which we live.