Human beings do not belong to nature. At least, in terms of mental structure.

The birth of civilization is evidence of our escape from nature, not a manifestation of our integration. From the beginning of stone tooling, humans have been drawing a line. Not with the enemy, but with nature. We began to light fires, build walls, build houses, write books, and set up markets, all of which kept the "wild" out of the door. Nature used to be a place to live, then a pool of resources, and then an object to be defended against.

Newton tells us that apples don't fall because of emotions, but because of gravity. The essence of this sentence is to sever the last link between nature and human emotion.

But a certain sentiment still stubbornly exists. That's—"We are one with nature。 This sentence sounds zen, warm, and compassionate, but it doesn't hold water. From all the perspectives of the structure of the universe, the movement of celestial bodies, the mechanism of life, and the psychological mechanism, this sentence is almost wrong.

First, the universe is never a "whole".

The Big Bang theory does say that everything has a common starting point. But that's just the beginning. After that, it expanded, cooled, diverged, stars were born at different times, the Milky Way is one of hundreds of millions of galaxies, and the solar system is just a speck of dust. Jupiter's physical order with Mercury is not comparable at all, and Pluto's climate regime has nothing to do with Venus.

This "non-oneness" is the norm of the universe. Unity in the true sense of the word only appears briefly under certain initial conditions. The distance between the stars is so great that it is impossible for them to interact; The orbits of the planets do not cross in order to avoid a devastating unity. In other words, physical isolation is the premise for the self-sustaining of the universe.

Human beings try to use "love" and "God" to bridge this crack, but it is just a remnant of the mythological age.

On a perceptual level, humans are more completely isolated from nature. You can stand in the forest and take a deep breath or watch the sunrise from the top of the mountain, but you can't really interact with a tree. You can't know how it "feels", and you can't get feedback on it. For nature is blind, mindless, selfless.

This is a break in the body.

Nature does not grieve for the death of a human being, nor does it reward any species for the good deeds of a human being. Its mechanism is a set of non-personality systems, controlled by parameters such as probability, physics, chemistry, energy distribution, etc. Volcanic eruptions are not punishment, and solar eclipses are not divine will.

Human beings have intentions, concepts, and reflections. We live in a semantic system, and there is no such thing as "meaning" in nature.

The deeper separation lies in the structure of "psychological silos".

Even within human beings, we are not truly connected to each other. Every human being's feelings, memories, pains, and pleasures are locked in a closed system in the brain.Outward behavior is a signal, but not perception itself. Just because you see someone crying doesn't mean you can feel the temperature of that tear.

So, even if you're surrounded by people, you can feel lonely.

We are completely alien to the earth.

The earth has no senses, no cognition, no consciousness. It doesn't think, it doesn't choose. When an earthquake comes, it doesn't worry about hurting anyone; Ecological collapse, it will not deplore. It simply evolves based on physical parameters. Your "gratitude" to the earth is a one-sided projection, which logically even approximates a confession to a corpse.

The essence of civilization is to create a psychological refuge.

We construct cities, art, religions, political systems, which are not naturally generated, but anti-natural. A primitive person relies on intuition to forage for food, and a citizen relies on clocks, menus, and takeaway apps. These are two systems, not an escalation relationship, but a complete derailment.

Just as a modern person walks into the forest barefoot, he will not "return to nature", but experience an "immersive nature consumption".

Civilization is reflexive, to combat the blindness of nature. Every brick and every traffic light in the city is the result of our confrontation with nature. They are not "blending in", but barriers. Life in nature obeys the laws of evolution, and we, trying to break out of it through social laws and ethical structures.

But at the cost: complete alienation.

When an animal is active in nature, it does not think about "who I am" or "what am I going to do". It performs actions according to a genetic setting. And before every action that humans do, there is a "self-conscious intervention" – that is, "what am I doing?" This sentence.

This sentence is the starting point of freedom and the end of nature.

In a sense, the more civilized we are, the less natural we become. The more cultured we are, the less animal we are.Our social structures, ways of thinking, and emotional regulation systems are not gifts from nature, but by-products of self-transformation. Humans are not "children of nature", but "traitors of nature".

What's even more cruel is this: nature doesn't care about it.

You spend your whole life guarding the mountains and forests, and the earthquake will still engulf you; If you go green, the climate will warm. Natural blindness is not skewed by your virtue. This is the most fundamental coldness. We crave feedback from nature because civilized humans rely too much on echo chambers. But nature is silent and incommunicable.

The so-called "dialogue with nature" is a one-sided psychological consolation.

Life that is truly "unified" with nature is an ant, a jellyfish, and a virus. They don't doubt, they don't reflect, they don't struggle, they just execute. They have no pain and no happiness. They are simply the executors of natural mechanisms. This kind of "unity" is precisely what the vast majority of us cannot accept.

Because we don't want to be fully defined.

So we created religion, literature, and philosophy to fill that cognitive gap. We have created a "sentient Mother Earth" to replace the unconscious Earth. We'd rather live in an illusion than admit it – we've come out of nature and can't go back.

The universe is divided, nature is indifferent, and humanity is lonely. It's not a tragedy, it's a structure.

So don't say "we are one with nature", it's just a self-comfort when you're afraid of being lonely. If you really want to be unified, you must let go of civilization, give up your ego, and return to the state of beasts. But at that time, you won't even be able to say the word "unification" anymore. Because you've stopped thinking.