Man and Nature

Man is nature. If you hung out in outer space, looking at the pretty blue planet we call Earth, you would realize that everything on it, is natural. Including Man. We are one of the warm blooded animals, undeniably. We are natural of the earth. To think anything else is a lie, plain and simple. We evolved however we began, and here we are today blaming ourselves for ruining Nature. It's, in truth, us. We are but one of the earth's natural things, using up other natural things. We are in the animal world, the "smartest ones", we believe. All natural beings strive to survive. They do it in a lot of ways: procreation, food gathering, and shelter seeking: the basics. What we humans have is a very special brain that gives us advantages. Our brains seek to improve. They create ways of betterment and some of those ways are destructive. We aren't the only animals on earth that try to improve our needs. Some of the smallest of us, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic creatures are harmful, too. Large animals that we fear, are as in need of the basics just as we are. But we go far beyond what we need. The inventions of Man have proven to pollute and destroy our planet beyond what we understood originally, and now we seek to correct our mistakes. We overdid it folks. Our fellow creatures on earth, the four legged and winged and crawling and swimming ones, take only what they need and nothing more. They also long ago and today raided and destroyed, in their way, but a balance ruled and rules, tries to right it. But  Man calls for more in his creations to make his lifestyle better and better, more and more lavish and complex, to not only meet his needs, but his wants, his pleasures. And some of the minds of Man, devise destructive means of getting what their greed requires. Man sees his future as static in a planet that ages naturally and in its way, as all things on earth gradually become extinct and erode.  But some of the clever inventions of Man speed up the process of evolvement.  His machines and electronics and weapons and overuses  feed his insatiable need for a seeming unfathomable desire to be better or richer or more powerful. Now is the time when the earth suffers from this need of Man and the rest of the creatures on earth struggle to survive the machinations of his brain and will. What was wild, has now become part of a fading animal environment, including our own, while its nature has changed little. Human beings are shocked at attacks by animals in whose worlds they go. Why?  There is a sad example on You Tube in a video of a glassed in zoo lion attempting to eat the head of a crawling infant its parent placed on the floor. The lion opens its jaws to claw and bite what it sees through the heavy glass. People laugh, forgetting what truth they are seeing. The lion doesn't laugh, it sees the little animal infant as food. It does not know about hubris. It does not understand glass. It understands its nature. An example to think about.