Nature. What is nature really? Well I'll tell you what it is not. It's not what you think it is. Is what I would say if there were a more concrete definition of what nature is. With the man made lakes, rivers, creeks, shores, and beaches it is sometimes hard to tell them apart from the ones that were made by weathering, erosions, and natural disasters. Whats to say what people created isn't any more natural than the other, whats to say that humans are a part of nature, or even that we are one with nature.
Sometimes people seem and act distant from nature, sometimes people are right along with it. As a boy I grew hearing stories of people going into the wilderness to find themselves and become one with nature. Living in harmony with the environment along side the animals and the trees. Men like Bear Grylls taking only what he needs and surviving, living off the land. Wanderers of old tales sleeping alongside the animals like the wolves or adventuring with a companion exploring the terrain along with an elephant. What makes us any different than the animals we roam around until we find a place called home, we build dams like the beavers, we build homes like birds and the lions, and we even sleep on the cold ground just to feel a little bit closer to it every now and again.
From time to time someone will ponder what is nature and the first thing that they will do try to locate it. Well that is a fairly rough task as it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate between us and the outside. Although every time someone gets closer to defining nature they start to realize that nature is more than before. People realize that nature is all around you in the trees, is the grass, in the rivers, in the animals, and even in themselves. Nature is more than just place it is how we interact with everything around us, how the animals merge with the environment, and how the wind blows.
When defining nature it can sometimes be the simplest thing and at the exact same time the most complex thing ever brought to question. In the end it all comes down to how we interpret all that is around us and understand that something like the word nature cannot be summed up into a few words, but something that must be experienced.