Learning from Nature
What is
nature? It is the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including
plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth,
as opposed to humans or human creation (retrieved February 14th from
Google). So, learning from nature means that we attained knowledge by simply
observing and/or understanding our surrounding. Which some people usually get
inspired to make new ideas.
A lot of people have made new invention to utilize nature’s
components as well as possible. Such as using the wind, water, geothermal or
geo pressure as a new source of energy. Using castor beans as bio fuel. Even
using animal waste as biogas. Some people have also use the sun as their source
of electricity. There are a lot of new technology nowadays that allow people to
use every piece of nature to complete their needs.
As human beings, we are inseparable with nature, it’s because
we’re part of nature and we need them to sustain our life. It has come to the
idea that nature gave us a lot of things, so, what did we give to nature as a
form of appreciation? Based on my experience I’ve done quite a lot of things to
preserve nature. For example, I grow plants on my lawn, recycle organic waste
and turn it into fertilizer, throwing garbage based on their kinds, using
cotton bags instead of plastic ones, and other things. Without us knowing, we
simply do small things that could help preserve nature like reusing scrap
papers.
But, as we know, there are good and bad in this world. We cut
down trees for our needs. We turn them into furniture and papers. We cut them
down so we can make a new land for houses and buildings. Little do we know,
we’re also cutting down our water supply. Houses that are built near the cliff
or the higher region are prone to erosion. We didn’t just cut trees, we
basically dumps all our waste and trash into nature. Factories dump their waste
into the open sea or water resource. They produce gas that could harm our ozone
and air. We use our own transportation that also produce harmful gas. There are
also people who throw away their garbage everywhere. We also use too much
electricity, we turn on all the lights even though it’s day, we turn on our
televisions all night even though we’re sleeping, we do a lot of things to
waste electricity. And last but not least, water. Some people use too much
water or throw their trash to rivers.
If we want to keep harvesting the good of nature, we must
keep it as stable as we can. We can start by planting trees or plants in our
house. Recycle trash or simply reuse them. Use public transportation instead of
private one. I hope that people will become more aware of their surroundings
and help to preserve them. Also, I hope that as the new generation we could
come up with great new ideas and technology to preserve nature and/or utilize
their components.
