Nature, Nurture and Higher Reality

What makes us human?

- Hella Naura

How to be generous with nature? For that, first of all one would have to become aware of the most vital fact that man depends on nature rather than nature on man, and secondly that, paradoxically, man himself is partly nothing but nature. So even if just out of selfishness, everyone at his own place should take care to not damage himself by thoughtlessly damaging nature further, be it for worthless ambitions, for gaining fast comforts or profits or just out of ignorance or laziness.

But a major part of man seems to have gotten so intoxicated by the scientific, technical, IT and AI discoveries and successes of our modern time that it just wants to go on in its many wrong ways. It is true though that little measures have been introduced lately here and there to “Protect Nature!” But in reality, it is man himself who needs protection! Because of what help would all his intelligence and self-pride and technical super-feats be, in case of, for instance, not only a Tsunami but a deluge? How could man save himself in case of a worldwide fire?

It is an awe-inspiringly fine balance of trillions of factors in nature that safeguards a benevolent interplay between the basic elements of earth, water, light-heat-fire and air that enables life, food and growth through the various and ever moving combinations and changes of their respective countless atoms. But first of all be it said, that most humans fail to ever appreciate a most basic fact. This fact is that it was not man who conceived and brought the globe we all live on into existence! It was also not due to human intelligence that this globe developed into a habitable earth in the course of stupendous lengths of time. And it is also not because of human scientific greatness that this earth has been revolving around itself since billions of years.