Are we not living against nature?

I would say that we , humans , are NOT living naturally and that is why everything else is appearing as unnatural to us. Earlier we simply accepted nature as it was . Not anymore. The constant search ...Why this? ... why that?..... why these? .... is driving man to challenge nature.





River? Put a dam across.Ocean? Try under water explosions. Sky? pollute it. Nature does not bother. It will tolerate evrything. It is the does...man... who will suffer for his misdeeds.Are we not living against nature?
We're not really living against it, we're just trying to prove that we can exist despite it.Are we not living against nature?
Philosophers have, at different times, tried to explain what it would be to live 'according to nature'.





The ancient Stoics based their philosophy on living in accord with nature. The Chinese philosophy of Taoism is also based on this idea. The great French philosopher Rousseau also decried our unnatural way of living.





The equally great 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill, in 'On Nature,' however, argued that nature is a-moral. She can bless us with sunshine or kill us with storms. Thus, nature has nothing much to teach us about how to live with one another. To discover how to live, we must rely on our own civilized reason and experience.





The Stoics at least would agree that logical thinking is a key in learning to live according to nature.





So maybe we need a clear definition of 'living according to nature' that can build on these various and seemingly contradictory ideas.
of course we are
yes. Civilization is by definition artifical.
yes
Around the industrial revolution, man began to seperate himself from nature by using machines to produce for himself, rather than by making everything from what nature would afford him.