To Josh,

I enjoy that argument. I like the irony in the suggestion that we could wage a real war with nature involving armies and weapons. It credits the potential force of the environment while giving false hope to the enemy who will be unpleasantly surprised when nature has equal rights in war.

For the past few days I have not been able to get over the trope of the law as a way to relate humans to nature. Laws seem so unnatural, and yet we have "the laws of nature" such as gravity and the speed of light, neither of which are perfect sciences. To me it seems that the laws of humans and the laws of nature are so far apart from one another, being that we can never make any part of nature purely scientific--there will always be mystery--that the very phrase "laws of nature" is indescribable.