Nature is everything and anything. It is the reason we exist and the reason behind our individual existence. Nature is not here for a reason, it does not have a task to fulfill or a goal to be met. Nature simply is.
It is the beauty that comes when an array of colors are splashed wildly, yet meticulously across an evening sky. Nature in the way mountains climb momentously out of the rocky earth or the way each single grain of sand lines the ocean’s shore. Nature is the way caves and canyons and crevasses stretch openly consuming the ground in their wake. It is the way water can trickle, wind, flow, rush, drip or rage.
Nature in it’s entirety is PERFECT. The even balance between night and day. The way each moon cycle completes in the same rhythm again and again and again and again. Nature is the way plants and animals, and bias aside, humans too, can live harmoniously together in a fragile balance of the miracle of LIFE.
Is it a miracle though? The improbable situation that made conditions for life to exist. Or is it simply a coincidence? The unlikely way in which nature can be so huge, expanding across the highest peaks, the continents, galaxies or even the universe; and yet at the same time produce the most intricate, miniscule organisms, such as the flickering heartbeat of a mouse, bacteria on fruit or even the atoms and molecules that structure life, is simply remarkable.
Nature is neither here to be feared or conquered. It is not put here for humans to use for our benefit. Yet neither are we for it’s. Nature should be enjoyed, marveled and awed, but never more. Although scientist may disagree, Nature is not to be “figured out” or solved like a complex math equation. And again, nature, unbeknown to many explorers, is not to be conquered, mapped or owned. Nature simply is.
In this century the meaning is changing. Nature becomes a more distant idea placed in your head by the mindless media controlling today’s people. Nature to many is “organic cotton sheets” or even a beautiful play a tour guide describes on a vacation, adventure. It may be the food on your plate or the flowers in your garden, but yet people need to realize nature is much larger that that.
Nature is what ties the human race together, without it, there would be nothing. To take a step back and notice, no, to FEEL nature in its whole is to start to understand. Nature is the feeling you get when you hear the wind sigh through the golden grass or the moon illuminate sparkling snow in a dense, pine forest. Nature is the feeling of looking face to face with a tornado, or hurricane or the feeling of looking across thousands and thousands of miles of plains.
To try to describe in words the purpose, meaning or reason behind nature is to miss the point entirely; for nature has no specific purpose, meaning or reason. Nature just IS.
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Good stuff... however do we exist because of nature or is nature an apparition embodied by our thought of "living as higher developed species." Other species might not think of it as nature, but they might simply accept it as life, no questions. Also if we are not to figure out nature, then how is it possible for nature to make an impression on individuals in the first place. When we formulate an opinion on nature (like these blogs) we are essentially trying to "figure it out" on small scale thought process. this is what sets us appart from the "other species," our ability to reason stuff out. We cannot help but reason, it is "human nature" (lol). It is next to impossible for most to "shut off their minds" and simply absorb nature as itself (whatever THAT is). Im not saying your wrong (i dont think there is a wrong answer) just responding.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Nina (I really enjoyed reading this one--thanks!).
ReplyDeleteI like the subtle case your making (very Emersonian in its own right) that 'Nature describes its own designs). There is a certain funamental sort of resignation here (one that ultimately subordinates human to Nature--as a subset, if you will--which may be entirely right...who knows? In other words, if it exists in Nature, then it is--de facto--perfect. Colton raises a good point, though. If humans are busy grappling with the very question, "to what end Nature?"--and if we accept that humans constitute on some level a part of nature (though this may be a leap), then at least the part of Nature that we comprise is not yet 'perfect' (or, should we, like the rest of nature, engage in a sort of blind resignation? I wonder.