Learning from Nature

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein is considered the most influential physicist of the 20^th century. In the quote above, he implies that nature is the key in understanding everything in our life. You might think, why? After all human is the most intelligent species on earth. Why do we have to learn from nature, that some would consider as lesser than human? In here we will try to answer that question.

First of all, what is nature? According to Oxford dictionary, nature 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. From that definition we can conclude that, in essence nature is everything beside humans and human creation. This means that there are more things that can be classified as nature than there are humans. If we look at it this way it seems to make sense to learn from nature.

All sorts of things can be learned from nature. From everyday values to something that can change your life tremendously. These things can be learned from all manners of plants, animals, and other part of nature. From the smaller one like ants, to the bigger one such as mountains. And best of all it’s actually not that hard to notice these amazing values if you just see and observe. Now we will delve deeper into what we can learn from nature.

The first one is weather. Have you ever seen a weather forecast? A weather forecast can be useful in planning your day. If the forecast shows that it would be a sunny day, you might have planned to go to the park, picnic, or do another outdoor activity. But the forecast isn’t always right. Sometimes what promised to be a sunny day could turn out to be a thunderstorm. From this we can learn that life isn’t always what you envision to be. It is unpredictable. You could have prepared for something to the best of your ability but in the end it could come to naught. But this doesn’t mean that you should stop after something went against your liking you should still try to make the best of the way things turn out to be.

The next example is the flow of water. The flow of water first started from water springs in the mountains. The water then flow through a calm streams and rivers with faster currents. And finally the water will reach the shore and continue the journey to the vast ocean. This teaches us that there are stages in life. Water can’t just start from the springs and suddenly teleport to the ocean. It must first endure the journey and pass through all obstacles they faced. Another thing that we can learn from this is not to give up on anything. Like water that continue to tore through all their obstacle and make their way to the ocean.

There are still lots and lots of things that we can learn from nature. From only the two examples above, we can already conclude that nature is a good teacher. Learning from it could completely change our way of living. What are you waiting for then? Go and start to learn new things from nature.