Human's Relationship with Nature/Plants

So what exactly is our relationship with nature itself? Are we part of nature? In Michael Pollan book, he dicusses the the topic of the plants coevolution with humans from the plants perspective. Pollan makes a point that plants and humans both uses each other for their benefits and that was part of god's plan. We as humans have certain kinds of needs and desires and as Pollan catogorizes it: sweetness, beauty, desire, and control. Those are our most dominant callings as humans and which they all go hand in hand with one another. Pollan uses an apple to best describe the basic relationship with nature. With our sense we are able to taste things and of all the tastes (ei: salty, sour, bitter, etc)the sweet flavor to naturally like by all cultures and even animals. Other the other hand, the apple by nature have to protect it's future generations hence it's seed in the core has a very bitter taste to it if tried to be eaten. However, if the apple/plant wants to be able to reproduce it needs for it seeds to be spread and planted. For protection it has a bitter center, but for its benefits it has a sweet and intriging flesh. So who's more suited for the job of spreading the apple's love then humans? Because of its sweet flesh that the humans will become the "bumblebee" as Pollan calls us and plant these apple trees all over the world. Humans and the apple tree both benefits from each other and everyone was happy.

But the problem arrises because humans for simply self-fish creatures. We are never stified with what we have. We like to have control and conquer things and in the process we destroied our relationship with nature itself. We burn/cut down trees and take away many of other animal habitats and hence forcing the animals to either suffer tremdmous loss or becomes extinct. But humans are too busy to care for animals...we need to make money and thats the key to everything in life. We're not only destroying forest, killing animals, but we're also taking out our own population slowly byt very steadily. With money and power being the "key" of humans life, we put great demands on commercial and industrial needs to make everything faster and easier for us because we "don't" have time. One thing leads to another and another and the end is near for humans if we don't make changes now. We're creating our own diseases with the massive industry of factory farming and all the pollution that comes with it...but thats only touching base with one of our many other problems we create.

Humans are part of nature and everything we do will have and leave an impact on the environment. The recent swine flu and the global warming impacts are great examples of the environment/natures reaction to the humans ways.

We can't deny that fact that our world depends and place alot of importance of money. However, we also need to take a step back and not blame evreything esle when things goes wrong and look at our own actions. Like I said before, humans and nature both are suppose to benefit from one another, but because of our self-fishness we've done great damages to the environment and ourselves.