any one have any ideas?
2007-10-04 03:30:59 · 12 answers · asked by scauma 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
darwin, thats one of the best statements i've ever heard, maybe one day people will wake up and realize that!
2007-10-04 03:36:03 · update #1
You're born, you live and you die.
While you live, you try to make the best of it.
2007-10-04 03:34:32 · answer #1 · answered by Stedway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When human beings first evolved to Homo Erectus, we had a relationship very similar to what the chimpanzee has with nature. We hunted from the land, and lived in small to medium social groups. the fact that human beings learn and pass down information far more actively than any other animal brought the introduction of language and with that literature, making it even easier to learn. because of this, we disassociated ourselves with Nature and developed civilisation, making human beings very insular. Commerce and agriculture destroyed our need to hunt and 'feed' off the land. The fact that we can create our own environments allowed the human race to live practically anywhere in the world. We have evolved so much that we don't have a natural habitat or a particular eating habit.
2007-10-04 03:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What we do to the natural world, we do to ourselves. We are nature.
If mankind continues to pollute the environment, we are harming ourselves irreparably. The rainforest is dwindling, leaving nothing but desert in its place. The ozone is being depleted, and there is little we can do to save it. The Greenhouse Effect may take 50 years to repair, if we start now.
Mankind must learn to live in harmony with the natural world, not try to rule over it.
2007-10-04 03:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by Kim K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In many ways, the way in which humanity relates to nature is the way each of us relates to our own bodies.
We are dependent on it, yet we have to often struggle against it.
We often see ourselves as being apart from it, yet we are surrounded by it and can't survive without it.
We sometimes consider ourselves its master, yet we can find ourselves at its mercy and powerless against it.
We consider it to be ours to use, yet if we are not careful in how we use it, we will be doomed.
Some ancient belief systems viewed man as a microcosm that was in some respects a reflection of the macrocosm of the universe.
2007-10-04 03:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by Azure Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is part of nature but also the ruler of nature. This means it is man's responsability as the dominant species to keep the balance of life in check. However, this does not mean that man has the right or obligation to exploit nature. Man's relationship to nature should be a partnership, a symbiosis- not a parasitism.
2007-10-04 03:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by Gordon B 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thing of it this way: The earth is like a cell... we are the genetic material - our job is to "split" the earth and create new earths on different worlds/planets spreading "life" to new places...
Genes can be defective and diseased, however... sometimes even destructive.
2007-10-04 03:35:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all life is one...this is the truest statement there is. humans do not have a relationship WITH nature, but are part OF nature.
2007-10-04 03:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by darwinman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"It is of the greatest importance...Our most basic teachings are those of the Earth, you know. You can’t separate the two, you can’t separate it from anything. It is our life blood, it is, it’s our way of life, it’s our thought, it’s our heart, it’s everything."
Ogimakwe
A quote that says it better than I could.
2007-10-04 03:37:42 · answer #8 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That we are 100% dependent on it.
2007-10-04 03:34:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
were all one big family. watch this. 6 minutes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g7cylfQtkDg
2007-10-04 03:33:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋