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8 pages in length. Culture and nature are inextricably intertwined, which provides the reason behind the way in which culture uses nature to represent itself to itself. Mankind has developed a bad habit over recent years in separating himself from the world around him, namely nature and the environment. This individualist and selfish approach to one's existence is both myopic and faulty, speaking volumes about contemporary humanity's inability to appreciate the intrinsic relationship every entity – living or otherwise – has with all other life. Ancient cultures fully understood and accepted this truth and duly worshipped those spiritual entities that resided within such living and inanimate objects as animals, trees, streams, and every other aspect of nature. Even though many populations still look upon the relationship between culture and nature as a synergistic force in their existence, mankind of today does not truly realize the intimate association these two entities have with each other. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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has developed a bad habit over recent years in separating himself from the world around him, namely nature and the environment. This individualist and selfish approach to ones existence
is both myopic and faulty, speaking volumes about contemporary humanitys inability to appreciate the intrinsic relationship every entity - living or otherwise - has with all other life. Ancient
cultures fully understood and accepted this truth and duly worshipped those spiritual entities that resided within such living and inanimate objects as animals, trees, streams, and every other aspect of
nature. Even though many diverse populations still look upon the relationship that exists between culture and nature as a synergistic force in their existence, much of contemporary mankind does
not truly realize the intimate association these two entities inherently have with each other. "The resemblances and differences of animal species are translated into terms of friendship and conflict,
solidarity and opposition. In other words the world of animal life is represented in terms of social relations similar to those of human society" (Levi-Strauss, 1971, p. 160).
II. CULTURE AND NATURE The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very essence of what it means
to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how one attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way
in which one interacts with another, as well as what governs overall cultural behavior. Working upon the assumption that, for at least the most part, people live their lives
out of habit and routine, philosopher John Dewey postulated that problem solving techniques are borne out of what has already occurred in ones past. If ancient man learned from
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