We are both physical and spiritual. There is something very special about each of us, according to the Bible. Benevolent rulership . Adam is entrusted with a stewardship of nature. Other species adapt to the environment.
Man is to care for it.
Just as God rules creation, he has entrusted to man the responsibility to care for the environment. Creative accomplishment . Adam is to cultivate the ground. He is to make things useful for human purposes. As God is creative, so is man.