I read a few pages from my Sociohorticulture class paper back book, and can already tell that there really isn't a difference, it's only our ideology hat we rule the resources here that makes it different. This is just what I thought when I read the book....It's called "Green Nature Human Nature" I believe. If you read the first few pages of Chapter One and the Conclusion, you can get what I mean.
To us, the wilderness is like a blur, we passively accept the trees as we drive across the roads, we ignore what goes on within the woods.
As mankind continues to instill the mentality that we own the world, and that we have the right to create our own world with our own ideals, taking more than we need, nature will always shine in the most remote places. The small cracks on the cement, the flower that shines in the desert that absorbs whatever amount of water it can get from the rare occurrence of rain.
Yet people would not be able to go see this kind of phenomenon because it's out of bounds because they are disconnected from their natural roots, the bonding between plants and human beings. We as a civilization are part of the world, we do not define the world. The light radiating from the sun, which is around 1-2%, is enough to sustain life because we all know plants absorb it for energy and that if we start to kill more and more plants and green nature, the more of the carbon dioxide that was absorbed will be released, making things worse.
Right now, at this very moment, it's easy to label those who think interacting and having a bonding with nature is nothing but idealistic and wasteful effort, but when we realize that what we destroyed will be almost impossible to regenerate, we will look back and see how incompetent we were in not realizing this, and it will already be too late.
To see the world beyond the scope of what we're capable of seeing, we need Green nature to be our new lens because nature is a part of that scope that we cannot reach. Crime rates, raids, etc. have augmented rapidly over the decades because we're slowly forgetting our place of origin. We've become accustomed of building more steel, concrete, and metal without realizing that nature is almost irrefutable in it's life force. We cannot suppress it's growth, it is a part of us.
We just ignore that we're a part of it, and how it's part of the Universe. When we think we're the most evolved species, it's almost ignorance that fuels that mindset. The animals, insects, etc. are all just as evolved as we are, we just think that because we can build things and think more intelligently, we're suddenly the epitome of evolution. It's only because when a species is split into different environments, and a population of species reproduce in a allocated area, a species will eventually become different because over generations and generations and years and years that they become incapable of interbreeding with other species.
If a person was placed in a jungle and was tested to see how long they would last compared to a monkey, obviously the monkey would win because it is built to conform to it's environment. They can hang on trees to see what's ahead, which is why they are a bit more slanted then us. We stand upright because unlike animals like monkeys who could barely see the grass above them, we like the see the horizon and beyond.
It's all about environment and how the body adapts to it. The Wilderness is neither friend nor enemy, it will always accept when our bodies rot for it to be fused with the soil and processed over again for the next life to come until we all kill ourselves off.
You don't have to believe in evolution, but understanding what people reject based on religious beliefs, etc. is always a good thing to be cognizant of, because it prevents mental barriers from getting higher. We think we're doing better than everything else, but in the end, when we're all dead, it'll go back to square one, where everything is one again instead of being split off.
When you were a child, haven't you ever tried to pick the parts of a daisies to indulge yourself in the game of chance in whether the person you liked "Loves me so, Loves me not?"
Did you forget that you instilled the belief that if you found a Four Leaf clover, that you'd be lucky as long as you kept it with you? Did you forget the grass flow through your young and delicate skin, feeling the edges sift through the linings on your palm?
When we finally start to kill ourselves off, to see the blood dripping on our bodies as we laugh and snicker and see the guts of our bodies make us look like body bags, nature will soak it up, and will be immortal as new mortal life comes to take it over again..
I could go on with this "being one with nature," but it's freaking 12:56 AM, and I seriously need to stop wasting my time expressing thoughts I've learned from reading only 14 pages of a book (imagine me when I finish the whole damn thing in this class by the end of the semester).
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