2007-03-31 19:55:48 · 2 answers · asked by boby 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nature is essential for a person's intellectual, aesthetic, and moral health and growth. One must see and experience nature intimately, whether defined as the "not-me" or as landscape, to participate in the unity of Spirit underlying its visible processes. This connectedness is the basis of the self-reliance which determines how a person lives with integrity in nature and society. Granted, the concept of self-reliance apparently devalues social concerns, including the global commitment and cooperation needed to bring about the kinds of changes that would, for example, reverse the climatic greenhouse effect.
2007-04-01 03:04:17 · answer #1 · answered by JRBisme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature!
Jean Louis Agassiz
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipotent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So Nature deals with us, and takes away our playthings one by one, and by the hand leads us to rest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2007-04-01 20:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋