Descriptive Essay on Nature

Descriptive Essay on Nature

What exactly do we mean when we talk about nature? That should be the initial question of this essay, as we cannot describe something without first knowing what it is. Nature is the proper condition of things, that is, that which is given with being, which is proper to it, which is immanent in it. We can say that someone has a "kind nature", for example, when we want to emphasize that that person is noble. In this sense, "nature" is a synonymous of "essence".

And this sense of the word is maintained when we use the term "nature" as a synonym for "natural world", that is, of what exists on the planet as it has always existed, according to its own rules and its way of being, without the will of being participating in it human. Although human beings are part of nature, we are living creatures as are also the plants and animals, traditionally we distinguish what exists "savagely" —that is, that exists according to its own principles— of that which exists artificially or rationally - that is, that which has been controlled or intervened by being human-. That is why cities, for example, are not part of nature.

Nature is a natural environment, even if it sounds redundant: a place where the laws of human beings have not made its entrance still and therefore remains intact, more or less as it has been throughout the centuries. We can find nature in any virgin space: a desert, a jungle impenetrable, the depth of the oceans or even in the field, as long as we know how to get away from the spaces intervened by humanity.

Why is nature important?

To appreciate nature, all you have to do is compare what exists inside our cities, with what we can appreciate outside of them. Where cities are homogeneous, that is, similar to each other, constant and with little presence of animals and plants, the Nature, on the other hand, is diverse, multiple, full of animals, plants and physical-chemical processes that hide the secrets of life. Without nature the world would be a gray, monotonous and dying space.

Seen this way, nature is the refuge of life in the face of human ambitions. In the city and in spaces organized according to human interests, everything responds to a productive logic, to a plan, to a way of structuring life to obtain certain ends (even if it goes wrong or if projects are not fulfilled).

Nature, on the other hand, is wild, uncontrollable and does not respond to any plan other than survival and reproduction: living beings engender other living beings and maintain the species diverse, changing, in continuous adaptation to the conditions of its environment.

While humanity has changed the environment to suit its needs and ambitions, nature remains pure, equal to itself, since it is the animals and living beings who adapt to the environment. This means that only in nature can human beings, paradoxically, re-link with our place original on the planet and remember that we are living, mortal beings, with the same needs as our relatives from other species.

Furthermore, only in nature can we find the raw material for our complex industrial processes, and only in it can we eventually regain perspective on who we are. That is why many sages, ascetics, prophets and gurus turn away from humanity and enter the nature for a time: abandoning human logic for a while allows them to attain the illumination.

Should we preserve nature?

Of course. Our mission as a species today is none other than to find a way to reconcile our desires and our post-industrial life model with the perpetuity of nature. If this is not achieved, we will be rapidly and irreversibly changing the natural environment that allowed the very emergence of our species, and creating a different world, unsuitable for numerous animal and plant species and possibly unsuitable for us themselves. It is a self-destructive race for our species.

Nature, then, must be protected from our ambitions. Of the pollution that poisons it and modifies it in unpredictable ways, from the voracity of our industries that destroy habitats whole to grow useful and profitable plants, or to obtain materials to transform into technological products, and even our comfort and our laziness, since despite the fact that the effects of environmental destruction is visible to all, yet many of us do not want to take responsibility and make the necessary changes to remedy it.

Only by preserving nature can we guarantee our continuity as a species on the planet, and not having to undertake some technological nightmare as an alternative to a destroyed world environmentally. After all, this world works perfectly as it is.

References:

• "What is a descriptive essay?" on The thinker.
• "Essay" in Wikipedia.
• "Nature" in Wikipedia.

What is a descriptive essay?

A descriptive essay it's a kind of essay text (that is, of reflection written in prose) that is characterized by addressing a specific topic (a place, for example, or a person, or a historical event, or some specific reference) and describe it exhaustively, that is, highlight its most prominent or relevant features or characteristics for the author. However, as in all essays, in this type of texts the subjectivity of the essayist is key to defining which are the most outstanding characteristics or which is the perspective from which the theme or the chosen reference will be described.

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