Are Humans a Part of Nature or Somehow Apart from Essays - Nature

Are Humans a Part of Nature or Somehow Apart from It? Are Humans a Part of Nature or Somehow Apart From It? To think of Nature, you must first define it. I looked it up in an old set of encyclopaedias my parents had in our basement. It said that the term "nature" has been used in various inconsistent senses, corresponding more or less to the different attitudes that thinkers adopted towards the material part of the world in relation to the rest. It then goes on about how different philosophers from the different eras defined it. From the Greeks to the Catholics, every culture has a definition of it. My definition of it is "Everything that makes up the planet, living and dead that is natural." It cannot be described as just one thing. It is everything. Does this mean that man is part of nature? In the Introduction to Nature in Human Life, It talks about how man coexists with nature. It tells us how humans use nature for shelter, food, entertainment, and inspiration. With all of these things that we use nature for, are we still part of it? In some ancient cultures, like the Pueblo Indians, they respected nature and all that she had to offer for them. It wasn't just nature to them. "The ancient Pueblo people called the earth the Mother Creator of all things in this world". They used the sand and clay for their homes. They buried their dead in collapsed parts of these homes. They were thankful for rich crops that the seasons would bring them. The land was holy to them. The Koyukon Eskimos shared some of the same traits of the Pueblo Indians. One of these was when they went hunting. They tried to use every last bit of the hunted animal. Nothing went to waste. To me, this shows a great relationship with nature. The Koyukon elders believed in the recycling of hunted animals. "It shows respect, returning animal bones to a clean, wild place instead of throwing them away with the trash or discarding them in a garbage dump. Math is one of the basic sciences of life; it can be said that is the most basic science, the first thing a person learns, apart from reading and writing, is how to add and subtract. But, is math a part of nature, or was it made to measure or understands nature? It is really hard to know, but in my point of view, math is a method created by men to measure nature. If math was a part of nature, man would be born with math knowledge, but man is not, man had to think about a way to count and measure things. And if it was a part of nature, man would learn it just by existing, but man has to go to classes or special curses to learn math. My way of seeing it, is that science in general is a way to explain and measure nature, but it is growing every day, because everyday man is discovering more things about nature and all things that surround man. Nature will keep growing until man stops living because nature is infinite, as well as explanations for nature, or science. Math can be said to be the most unspecific way of measuring nature, because physics, for example, measures forces; chemistry measure the components of nature. Math is only numbers; basically, it can only say that there is two liters of water. Physics can say the force that water is applying on the ground. Chemistry can say that water is changing the structure of the land, and how the structure of the water itself is changing. In conclusion; math is only a method to measure nature, a way of giving us a small idea of how big is nature is. The problem is that math will never give us a even close number for nature, because nature cannot be measured, nature can only exist as it is. Has man reached the point where he is no longer a part of nature and is abusing nature to the point of killing it off, or does nature have a natural selection that knows when