\"Yes, nature is carefuly managed national parks and vast boreal forest and unin

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"Yes, nature is carefuly managed national parks and vast boreal forest and uninhabited arctic. Nature is also the birds in your backyard; the bees whizzing down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan; the pines in rows in forest plantations; the blackberries and butterfly bushes that grow alongside the urban river; the Chinese tree-of-heaven or ‘ghetto palm, growing behind the corner store; the quail strutting through the farmer's field; the old field overgrown with weeds and shrubs and snakes and burrowing mammals; the jungle thick with plants labeled 'invasive' pests; the carefully designed landscape garden; the green roof; the highway median; the five- hundred-year-old orchard folded into the heart of the Amazon; the avocado tree that sproutsin your compost pile."1 Emma Marris, through her book Rambunctious Garden, explored a less-trodden path of conservation that moved beyond preserving pristine wilderness, where every piece of open land, as tiny as the little strip of land in our backyard, is deemed a part of nature that demands our respect, in the current epoch of the Anthropocene, for our "own salvation as a species"2 Her notion of a rambunctious garden might contradict prevailing concepts of conservation, where the whole of conservation's effort is to attempt to protect pristine ecosystems from human encroachment through initiatives that walled-off nature in parks and reserves. Her view that 'nature is almost everywhere' challenges our deep-seated assumptions that biodiversity belongs

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An environment is everything that surrounds us. Yes, it could be from "nature"- things that were there originally and are not built by mankind over time. Sometimes several constituents of nature can be a resource. Say, trees, they are the resource for paper, wood etc. So our environment can and should contain nature and yes nature can be a resource.

2) Our immediate environment should be a balance between an appropriate living condition, say a roof to protect us from the heat of the sun and minimal invasion of the environment (minimal destruction to the trees, flora, and fauna around). Obviously, you cannot live among tigers, but that only means we should not disturb or approach their habitats. Unless we strike this balance, the disturbance will deter the natural biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity and doom fitness of the environment.

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