Why do we separate humanity from nature?
What is nature? This question may seem fairly simple, but I believe it has a lot to do with so much in the modern world. Google defined nature as "the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations." I think it is very interesting that humanity separates itself from nature, but most feel we are animals with animal tendencies. So should we not consider human impact on earth nature? Assuming we are not animals but something more, which could easily be argued, the effects we have on earth are attempts to improve nature. Air conditioning fixes weather, we stop fires from burning, and if we could, we would stop natural disasters. More importantly, we let children with issues like blindness and down syndrome survive. If we are in fact better than nature, is it not our obligation to improve it? Those that use the modern sentiment that says people are born that way, or in other words, let nature take it's course as an argument seem to forget that nature itself would reject so many people we are arguing about. I think this question could provide a lot of answers when thought through and discussed. Right now I tend to think we are some mix of animals and something more. I am interested in all these questions I have asked and think literature includes human nature (including if it is better than nature itself) and just nature as a very common theme. I think this will keep me interested and provide answers to me about much of modern sentiments. I think many books relate to this, but one is Lord of the Flies, which comments on nature's power over man and man's nature in and of itself.