Nature is in conflict with technology while also influencing it. There is a sort of interconnectedness about man and his environment that inspires worship and, in some cases, a desire to control. The amazing thing is that nature is a balance of all of these things. That is what I mean by a balance. It's more like harmony.
Nature is the realm of works of the creator.
It is, as shown by the recent earthquake in California, a force that man can not control nor predict. The beeifits for mankind that can be derived from nature are innumerable, the the obstacles sometimes insurmountable. As man develops from a simple animal to a self aware being we will learn our place as a protector and purveyor. I guess I mean an interdependent system of organisms, but somehow it doesn't quite seem that cut and dried or quite that scientific. There's also an image of a romanticized garden of Eden idea, a kind of place to escape from all that is not natural, or civilization.