Austin Koenig
1/9/09
Mr. Lavender
AP Literature
Nature
What is nature? Most men would say that it is all of the wild living creatures of the world; others search out deeper meanings and philosophies about nature. To me Nature is the rawest and perfect form of society. Nature is a just society, for no creature can escape her one rule that all living things must die. It gives no advantages to anyone being nor does it deny any species the right to evolve. Nature has no bias as it lets the smallest of communities survive; as it lets the largest of beasts roam free. It wages neither senseless genocides nor unnecessary wars, only an ever constant battle to survive. It is a battle with no restrictions, rules, or treaties to any being; and so the winner of the battle is denied nothing as the loser can blame only itself. Nature is a brutal yet just, fair yet grueling, and unbiased yet merciless society in which only the strongest survive and prosper.
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How can nature be just, fair, gruelings or merciless? Isn't nature just nature, you are personifying nature too much.
ReplyDeletehow can nature be any thing else but a code in which that living organisms interac. How can nature be a mother?
ReplyDeleter u suggesting that it is a god like presence
or a link between all living beings
Nature is a form of harsh reality
think about things before u condesend on them
But what about humans? Can't you agree that humans are part of nature? And in this case humnas do wage genocides and wars, they give advantages to the rich and are, all in all, completely flawed. SO are humans an exception to this perfect form of society? Or in saying nature do you simply mean trees and mountains etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteI did think about it and I disagree. Nature is our mother, not God, and nature gives everything that we need, how can it not be a sysnonym to a mother? And take others opinions better buddy. We can agree to disagree. =)
ReplyDeleteHumans aside, 'cuz we seem capable of fucking everything up, the idea of Nature as a society is amazing. Nature operates seamlessly, with no hard feelings, no anger, no strife (as we percieve it). Simply a status quo that must be followed. It forms something perfect, perfect in its brutal honesty, its harsh reality.
ReplyDeleteAll that Austin has done is removed the spiritualism. To ever hope to emulate nature in OUR society (which we need to do! ASAP, we must feel OUR connection with nature. We must believe in the unseen, unheard, seldom percieved energy behind nature, in nature, around nature. We must become aware of that energy, that VIBE, tap into it. Then we can incorporate it.
Good post and engaging comments (though Kelso, you need to keep your language appropriate).
ReplyDeleteI, too, when I first read this, was struck both by the notion that Nature constitutes a society (normally, we see the opposition: as in Nature versus Society). But I am even more intrigued by Chancee's (and Nina's) query about whether or not Nature can have a 'value system'--a sense of morality other than that one which derives from humans (as Chancee puts it: isn't Nature just nature?).
IN any event, a lot of good observations here--both in Austin's initial posts and the comments that follow it--ones that clearly warrant further thought!
I agree in that nature supports and i feel "Live and let die" is a great quote for this post, but i do agree that humans rule that world. we rule nature and everything that lives in nature...
ReplyDeletethe world was just when humans didnt polute the social ladder. No everything obeys to our rules..