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 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:50 pm
I wrote this a while ago on a long rant to a friend. People have found it moving and influential so i wish to share it. It's about nature so i feel it belongs in this topic. enjoy
Listen to Nature; it talks if you know how to listen. Though listen is the wrong word. You more have to feel it, and you have to feel with every way you can.
I've been listening lately to my woods, and i hear a lot of pain. It's being littered on and trampled over, and over run with people and their pets. It's being closed in with buildings and fences, and is polluted by machines and cars. It's not what it use to be. Simply its pride is hurt, and it's dying, which is a huge reason I spend so much time there now. I listen closely, so it might tell me how to help. and well, it's told me one thing, but don't like it. So I've been waiting for a new proposal. What I'm heaing is, "Get rid of man."
Think about it, every animal is in equilibrium with nature, but man is not. We take without asking, and give nothing in return.
I am right for the most part. Thankfully we've been becoming more Earth friendly in the past few decades. But in whole, we're still raping Mother Nature. We are destroying her forests. We take and burn her oil and pollute her skies and oceans. All because we as humans are selfish and all it comes down to is money. I hate to say it, but i really hate being what i am. Sometimes I don't think my soul is human. I'm a child of the Earth first, then a child of my parents second. I know it sounds ridiculous but that's how I see it. For as long as i can remember, I've always thought of myself as different (obviously I'm different if you know me.) But aside from the fact of acting strangely, I'm more in tune with what's around me. I've always been able to feel Nature.
One time my mom took my brother and me on a walk in the woods and she asked us, "What do you guys like most about Nature?"
My brother said "I like the trees and birds."
But i answer simply, "I like Nature."
My brother yelled at me, "You can't just like Nature, you have to like something about Nature."
But what i said that afternoon is still true, I love everything about everything. Nature is Nature, and i guess being human, I'm still just a part of Nature as everything else. Everything humans do is natural, because it's what we do. We build cars, and bridges, and roads and cities and we burn oil and farm and pollute and strip mine and cut down forests, because that's what we do. That's how we are. Just as termites eat wood or birds build nests, we are as natural as the grass that grows. The course of Nature has taken us to exactly where we are, and it couldn't have been any different. That's human nature. You and I are here because it couldn't have been any other way.
It's too bad that our nature clashes with the rest of it. But we wouldn't if there wasn't so damn many of us. Honestly I think we were better off and better to nature as hunter gatherers. Damn our advances in agriculture. Once we settled in, we threw off the balence. We started cutting trees to make land for planting food, killing large animals and cutting more trees to make our homes and clothing. We spread, discovering metals, mixing metals to make stronger metals, steam, electricity, oil, nuclear, space travel, we landed on the moon, we fly in the sky and swim underwater effortlessly. And we are still constanly destroying forests, and jungles for more land. It's sad. We pollute the air with CO2 and at the same time, we destroy jungle, our natural CO2 filter. More than what plants can keep up with... We are slowly killing earth, and i hear that every day.
I guess what's really funny is that we're not really killing Earth, we're killing ourselves. All that's happening right now is we're slowly changing the Earth into something less tolerable for us. Once we are inevitably gone, the Earth will keep on spinning. And the Earth will always rebound. It will retake lost forests, overgrow and turn our cities back to dirt. The skies and oceans will clean themselves. I just love how raw, filthy and dirty Nature really is, but so clean, pure and powerful at the same time. We are also in constant battle with it. We mow our lawns, prune our trees, tirelessly sweep dirt from our house, we build dams. But we will inevitably lose this battle. Nature will always win.
I Love the Earth, I Love life. I am life, and I am Earth
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:31 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:34 am
That was awesome.
I feel the same way. Humans are shameful creatures, but we can't help being who we are.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:53 am
Jerba Humans are shameful creatures, but we can't help being who we are. I agree, but to a point. I think humans can be shameful, but I don't think we are wholly shameful. We have the full potential to change how we are, how we act, etc. It just comes from making choices to do so....sorry, that was off the topic of the OP, but I just wanted to state that sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:05 pm
impossible_infinity Think about it, every animal is in equilibrium with nature, but man is not. We take without asking, and give nothing in return. I never understood why this myth is so popular. The only reason an animal is "in equilibrium with nature" is that it is forced to be. If animals had the capabilities humans have, they would be just as bad for nature as we are. Actually, they would be worse because they wouldn't bother with conservation.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:08 pm
zz1000zz impossible_infinity Think about it, every animal is in equilibrium with nature, but man is not. We take without asking, and give nothing in return. I never understood why this myth is so popular. The only reason an animal is "in equilibrium with nature" is that it is forced to be. If animals had the capabilities humans have, they would be just as bad for nature as we are. Actually, they would be worse because they wouldn't bother with conservation. exactly what i was thinking
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:11 am
zz1000zz impossible_infinity Think about it, every animal is in equilibrium with nature, but man is not. We take without asking, and give nothing in return. I never understood why this myth is so popular. The only reason an animal is "in equilibrium with nature" is that it is forced to be. If animals had the capabilities humans have, they would be just as bad for nature as we are. Actually, they would be worse because they wouldn't bother with conservation. Actually, animals are technically part of nature, and one thing cannot contrast with itself. And, since humans are also a part of nature, then it is nature for nature to destroy itself. Marvelous idea, isn't it? Nature is a contained system, no matter how wild its parts may be in comparison to the rest. So you cannot say that since a part of nature is different, therefore it must not be nature. All nature is nature. Let me just use nature a few more times. Nature, nature, nature, nature, nature, nature, Mother Nature, naturally natural nature. Now look at this poorly done diagram of nature.  *I forgot to put in a category for 'things', like rocks and rivers. But you get the idea.
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:47 am
I'm not sure why you make such a point of humans being part of nature. Nothing in my post says otherwise, and I don't see the issue as particularly relevant. Jerba And, since humans are also a part of nature, then it is nature for nature to destroy itself. This is an awkward statement. Nature destroys itself in that various parts of it destroy other parts of it. The system as a whole does not tend to self-destruction.
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