Meta Post: And Nature Said, "

We had a lot of good discussion over this blog week's Ted Talk over a previously visited subject about nature as character and what does something like that exactly mean when we write. It was not the only re-occurring subject however, we had excellent mentions of carrier bag theory and even this interesting idea that, as a collect unit, the human race feels some sort inherent superiority over our dear Mother Nature. It brings to question why we feel this superiority over nature? As humans, we know we need nature to survive so what is with the need to conquer the "wild" of nature?

Is it not self-evident that we are not as strong as the plants that spring from the ground even at the worse of time, that our sense of survival is not that of a bear or deer, that we will never compare against the natural whims of elements, and that the weather will always have the upper-hand? We, surely, know that are not as capable as nature and its mechanisms. Is it our dependency that leads us to snub nature so we can pretend that nature would not be able to go on without our cultivation? This superior--why and when did it start? When did humanity become too big for the world that nurtured us as well as ourselves?

How do we re-establish this connect and humble ourselves in the soil of nature once again?