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Human and Nature As a biological species, human beings are indeed part of the nature and life activity of human body shall consistently follow the natural law. During the long-term evolution of the nature, human beings have developed the brainpower, which has surpassed other species and built up extremely complicated and rigorous social organization system. Although human beings have so many unique features, especially high initiative and creative ability, compared with other creatures and lifeless matters, human beings are the outcomes of long-term evolution of the nature and consistently keep exchanging the matter, energy and information with the nature. Without human beings, the natural will still exist, which means the nature doesn’t depend on human beings; however, human beings can survive only in certain natural environment, which means human beings always relies on the nature. All the creatures do not independently survive, and they assist and compete with the individuals of the same type; plants, animals and microorganism also have complicated relationship mutually reinforcing and neutralizing each other. In order to satisfy their own demand, human beings continuously change the environment but in return, the environment also has certain impact to human beings. Biological evolution is the outcome of the interaction between creatures and the environment. The creatures continuously import and export matters to the environment in the life, and the physical environment changed by the creatures, in return, will influence or select creatures, both of which will always develop towards co-adapted collaboration that is the so called normal natural succession. With the expansion of activity areas of human beings, the impact to the environment is becoming more and more obvious. Nowadays’ human beings not only play a significant role in the energy flow, matter cycling and information exchange among the

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