Man and Nature: What man gets from nature

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Wen | Dai Rongli

Humans rely on the influence of nature to raise the height of their thinking, which in turn maintains the balance of nature. Learning to self-reflect in development is always a principle that human beings should adhere to.

What does man learn from nature? It seems that the logic of axiology does not make sense. But what man gets from nature has a lot of theories and stories to tell. Whether humans recognize the theory of evolution or not, there is a consensus among all that man depends on the natural world for his survival. Nature provides the material and spiritual food that man needs.

Man's basic physiology needs to be obtained by nature. No matter how great a person is, he cannot do without food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. What kind of things to wear in spring, summer, autumn and winter do not come from nature? The need for clothing is given by nature, the earth is polluted, it is difficult to grow cotton, although modern people understand the art of chemical fiber synthesis, but cotton is still very important to people. The vast majority of the food that human beings eat at once comes directly from the gifts of the earth. Without the generosity of nature, man cannot survive by the northwest wind alone. However, human beings use drugs of their own invention to pollute the grain on the earth, and finally poison themselves. From grass sheds to high-rise buildings, human living conditions continue to improve, modern buildings in the human comfortable living environment at the same time, but also breed many dangers of survival, the formation of urban high-rise buildings "heat island effect", light pollution caused by various eye diseases, because the sunlight can not reach and the formation of high-rise syndrome, etc., is the human crazy interpretation of architectural functions caused by hidden dangers. When human beings always treat the natural world as a random rubbing of mud, even if your wishes are good, nature will redouble its revenge. When more and more roads, highways, railways, high-speed railways, waterways, and high-speed waterways are built little by little, human beings are free to gallop at the same time, but also bring about the destruction of the original natural ecology. Humanity covers up another loss with one goodness. Nature's resistance, which seems passive, is actually initiating the next cycle. Every upgrade of food, clothing, shelter and transportation makes people self-satisfied, and also allows nature to suffer another level of destruction.

Biomimicry is undoubtedly an act of human learning from the natural world. Airplanes and ships have changed the way humans travel, but airplanes and ships have also accelerated human self-destruction. When aircraft joined the world war, there was reason to fear that those carrying nuclear weapons would one day destroy humanity; ships carrying humans to complete the sea voyage and pouring countless pollution into the sea. When I worked in a coastal city, I ate diesel-contaminated sea oysters several times, and the unspeakable taste was the most direct punishment and reminder for human beings. Humans have intelligent brains, rely on nature to inspire thinking, and win world-changing technological inventions, and these bionic objects in turn damage the existence of animal and plant diversity. Maybe one day, human beings will no longer be able to eat eggs, but can only eat synthetic proteins; can not watch birds, but can only see the planes in the air; and can not see the sea of flowers, because the earth has been compacted... With its own greed, human beings have learned the way of life of all things, and after extremely clever inventions, they have led human beings to the end of their own way. This is not alarmist. Indifference to the natural world is bound to be punished by nature.

Human beings take a leap of thought from the natural world, whether in the past, present and future, the flash of thinking will become magnificent because of the existence of everything in nature. Humans rely on the influence of nature to raise the height of their thinking, which in turn maintains the balance of nature. Human beings cannot completely change the natural world by taking infinitely from nature, but must reach a tacit balance with the natural world. The natural world is beautiful, and human beings have no capital to destroy this platform of symbiosis. Learning to self-reflect in development is always a principle that human beings should adhere to.

writers who are partial to urban architecture,

An engineer who is passionate about philosophical thinking.

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This article was published in the late November 2021 issue of Xiaokang