SURVIVING VERSUS LIVING NATURE AND NURTURE

摘要

Hurricane Sandy's visit to New York connected people. Within this disaster's default setting, one's best place was with other people. This and the universal backdrop of Mother Nature are our true basic environments. Yet we have become disconnected from them. Butterflies fly among flowers for nectar, spiders spin webs to trap prey, and humans once harvested land and hunted for food. As animals of nature and creatures of social comfort, our life in cities deprives us of the evolutionary instinct and beneficial trait that working together on the land can offer. Away from the very nature that supplies us with food, and the relaxing ambrosia of natural distractions, we seem only to tend to survival in the city; picture a bee in a concrete jungle without plants - it would soon die. Perhaps we should now be harvesting food for social purposes. It should not take a hurricane to bring us together.