This chapter analyses V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987) as a novel that explores the role of language in human interaction with nature. The novel is about Naipaul’s inner journey in the precincts of Salisbury where he takes up residence in a cottage on rent. He discovers that language plays an important role in forging a relationship with our surroundings because it is loaded with cultural meanings. With English education in the colonies, the colonised lost their language and were forced to adopt a language that was not theirs. Naipaul in The Enigma of Arrival describes the processes where a language, divested of its cultural significations, creates a rift between man and their environment. He recovers his health by re-learning the language in its home country and connecting back to nature. As a descendant of indentured labourers in the Caribbean, Naipaul carves out a space for himself within the environs of rural England, reshaping the boundaries of English literature by opening the door to a more diverse and inclusive literary landscape.