Monday, September 29, 2008
Is farms part of nature?
There will be different opinions on this question because some people have different views on what they think nature is. Some people feel that nature is just trees, plants, grass, or even insects and not the order in which God do things. Order as in a field of roses by a lake bed, or a sugar cane field right next to a colony of orange trees. I feel that anything that's tampered by man wont originally appear in nature. A garden groups different plants together that wont appear in nature and grow them side by side to use them for there own means. This tampers with the order so therefore gardens and farm aren't nature, that's just my opinion.
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I understand that you do not feel that gardens or farms are considered nature. However, I think that you need to take into consideration that a lot of parts of nature are shaped around human environments. For example, many preserved, or natural habitats, are near cities or cultivated areas, such as villages. By your argument, nothing would be a part of nature. We say that if anything is tampered with, then it is no longer natural. Gardens and farms are man-made, but this doesn't mean that their contents aren't a part of nature and are, in essence, natural. One of the points you are making is that we as humans are the dominant species. There is nothing that we don't know how to "work with." So in essence, everything at this point is tampered with, and by your definition, "un-natural." I agree with your point that once an object of nature is under human “control”, it is no longer a part of nature until the processing is complete. In other words, when humans take control of something, it is no longer a part of nature until humans change it into something for a different use. It is once again a part of nature. If you really consider it, nothing is a part of “nature” any longer because of thousands of years of human interference with the natural environment.
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