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# Are we nature?
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/are-we-nature/
- Published: 2024-06-07T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-30T16:55:07.000Z
- Description: I thought I knew the answer, but I'd failed to spot some of the implications 🌿
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: TRUE NATURE, Cycling, Principles, Quick insight, Real stories

So I’m idly browsing twitter, as you do, and the algorithm’s served me up some guy, talking about [whether or not humans are part of nature](https://x.com/iancarter67/status/1793879496552247539?ref=gilespcroft.com).

*“Ooh, I know a thing or two about that,”* says the Giles Ego Construct (the GEC: 📦) and off it goes, reading and nodding.

At one point in the thread, he says:

> *“We are not separate from the rest of nature…”*

📦: \[Concurs, nods silently\]

Then he goes on…

> *“And logically, that extends to everything we make. A termite mound and a White Stork’s nest are natural, but so is a car park, a woodland razed to the ground and a stone wall.”*

Say what, now?

📦: 😶

📦: 🤔

📦: 😮

📦: 🤯

Because, dear reader, for the Giles Ego Construct 📦 head-canon, that was very much *not* the case.

As I said in [my reply](https://x.com/gilespcroft/status/1793915429028774034?ref=gilespcroft.com) to him,

> *“This tweet has given me pause for thought, thank you. While seeing humans as inseparable from nature, I have always mentally categorised the outputs of humans (e.g. roads/buildings) as lifeless and ‘non-natural’ but I realise the hypocrisy of this view now!”*

(You see, polite discourse on social media *is* possible 😉)

So now, every time I’m out on my bike, admiring all the non-human-created things that I specifically go out of my way to surround myself with, I’m reminded of this, and I relax into my wrongness.

Between you and me I’ve not even formed a new belief about this one yet. It was only five days ago and I have no idea what to think about it all.

But that in itself is quite nice.

Not knowing. Close cousin of Being Wrong. I like them both.

Anyway, let me know what *your* Reader Ego Construct 📦 has to say about this, in the comments, below! 

💟

Giles 

p.s. I can't talk about this without pointing you to this timeless, insightful track from Howard Jones, called [*Natural*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxxFaJE8s04&ref=gilespcroft.com)*:* 

> *“Everything around us is natural* 
> *Don't fight it* 
> *Don't disagree with this and that.*

> *Everything we like and don't like is whole and natural* 
> *I know is doesn't feel like it and the world seems wrong* 
> *But if we don't like it now then who can we blame* 
> *Blame God, be still, find harmony.”*

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