The Lives of a Cell

In the article "The Lives of a Cell", we are told from the author that the Modern Man has been finding himself to try to detach himself from nature. He goes to say that the Earth is delicate and frail. I think that it is wrong to think that Modern Man is detached from nature because nature is where we first started off with. So when the author goes on and talks about how we are not just an individual being but rather a group of "individuals" that provide the essential need for everything in our lives, I agree with him. The Earth is best understood as a single cell because although we consider ourselves independent and detached from nature, rather we are shared, rented, and occupied just like the cell itself. The author states that in the inside of our cells, mitochondria "provides the oxidative energy that sends out for the improvement of each shining day", without them, we would not move a muscle, drum a finger, or think a thought. So if we were comparing the Earth to a single cell, there is no way we are considered to be detached from nature because nature and all the things around us provides the essential needs for our everyday lives. "The Lives of a Cell" makes a perfect connection between the Earth and the cell and how we are made up as a whole rather than a single being.