This view was kept alive in his story To Build a Fire. In this story there exist several examples to prove the ideology that London believed nature was omnipotent. This man is ignorant of nature s great influence here in the Yukon. He is unaware of the awesome power that nature holds over this vast territory. Even at this point of the story London alludes to the knowledge of the ages of nature and the short time which man knows of.
Man is a novice in the world compared to nature.
Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. London addresses man s overconfidence in himself in this passage. He presents the idea that man is so self absorbed that he does not realize, that he does not comprehend the true meaning of what nature is. Rather man lives his life day by day focusing completely upon himself and his interests.