Nature is my body doing what it can to contain the poison and the curse that rolls off my tongue even before I know what's hit me. Nature is the sparrow-hawk circling overhead in the clear blue sky, and my heart leaping in that direction as I stand breathless as the hawk glides flapless. Nature is the empty cans of Budweiser I collect off the graybrown granite rocks of the James. Nature is my anger and indignation at the careless and ignorant. Nature is the forgivness that buries the cans, plastics, and countless other things I miss that day.
Nature is both scientific and spiritual.
It is a combination of living things and the marks of things long dead. It is also the reactions and feelings that we have when we experience our environment. 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.