Remember when you went out in the province with your family, it was so cold, and you thought that the trees, mountains, and plants, were so beautiful? Or when you went to that beach with your family, what was it again? But all you remember was how vast the ocean was, how mesmerizing the corals were, and how it was so noisy because there were so many people, right?
Well, that’s Nature. We long for it. We search for it. Because we were made with along with it when God formed everything in 7 days.
No, we long for its Maker. We feel his presence, his love as you see the beautiful vein patterns on a leaf, hear the humming of bees, and the wind rustling the trees. The clear pinkish-blue sky at dawn when the sun is about to rise and gives its light. We have this sense of gratitude for the world God gave us as stewards of it and we are humbled down and we realize the simple life, self, that God meant for us to be. We discover the thrill of Science as we try to discern what kind of bird you see or the kind of river you’re gazing at. Or how we change our perspective.What if we were a bee, a flower, or a tree? How could life have been? Would we worry about the food to eat the next day, you think, as you pick a Santol that fell on the ground. No, of course not.
We study Nature because we love it and care for it. Aside from that, we record it to exercise our observation and to discover our artistic element. Everyone is a born naturalist. God designed us to be so we could take care of the world he gave us.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 1: 26-30
Nature study is also used to keep memories in our hearts. The Bible is a good example of the memories of Creation.
It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but our gratitude to the ultimate Maker that gives us joy.
And that is why we Nature Study.
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