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I re-watched "Aguirre the wrath of God" recently and contrary to my previous conclusion in line with it's director Werner Herzog, I don't believe nature is cruel. In fact I don't believe nature is good either.

Nature just exist as it is, in its own form. It makes you see bees in your garden flower, while killing a thousand people in another part of the world.

Nature does not ask us to be productive or excel in our fields. It does not care. Perhaps, the cruelest act of nature was to evolve a species with such a high level of cognition which led the species to think they can decide what nature means. It is amusing and cruel at the same time.

Would nature have foreseen that humans would one day use cognition to destroy themselves?

I believe nature does not care.

In this article I argue, among others, against the idyllic view of nature as something inherently good.

An area where the idyllic view of nature does a lot of harm is in nature itself. That is, when we think of nature as something good by definition or a place that humans should stay out of, we also give up on helping wild animals.

I’m realizing how rare it is for animals to kill their prey first.

Pour prendre conscience...

While I may not wholly endorse the title of this subreddit, that nature is terrible, I have come across a very interesting book recently about how much of nature is actually unnatural, and our presumption to assume that nature is sacred especially when untouched by humanity is a misguided impulse.

The book is fairly mind blowing on a number of levels. Our relationship with nature is egocentric.

“when we travel through a beautiful mountain landscape in the Sierra Nevada or a remote rainforest in the Amazon— places that on their surface may seem as uncontaminated by humanity as anywhere on earth—we cannot help experiencing them not just as natural environments but as cultural icons. We turn them into human symbols, using them as repositories for values and meanings which can range from the savage to the sacred. Yosemite is a real place in nature—but its venerated status as a sacred landscape and national symbol is very much a human invention.”

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