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Human Nature And Nature

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There is a fundamental part of human nature that desires to be involved and engaged with nature. “We are in the fullest sense a biological species and will find little ultimate meaning apart from the remainder of life” (Wilson 81). Wilson identifies this urge as biophilia. While there is not strong formal scientific evidence, it is something that he sees in how people live their daily lives and how we have interacted with nature through history. “It unfolds in the predictable fantasies and responses of individuals from early childhood onward. It cascades into repetitive patterns of culture across most or all societies, a consistency often noted in the literature of anthropology. These processes appear to be part of the programs of the brain [...] They are too consistent to be dismissed as the result of purely historical events working on a mental blank slate” (Wilson 85). Some of these places that Wilson identifies are in the myths that share many similarities and a focus on the natural world between cultures around the world. As cultures and societies have grown and changed our relation to nature has as well.
From the start of humanity, we have had a strong relation with nature. Originally humans were reliant on nature as nomadic hunter-gathers. As humans progressed they began to advance in technology and agriculture to be able to sustain themselves better and settle down in permanent locations allowing for larger populations and eventually cities. As this happened there

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