"...Individual people, nations, animals, insects, and plants do not exist in or by themselves. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process." As I was walking home from class a few days ago, I tried to imagine what this campus would look like if all of the trees were gone. Not just the huge, magnificent ones (like the tree at Littlefield), but every single tree-even the regular ones I fail to recognize on my daily walk to class. If this were to happen, it would make such a dramatic difference that I think people would probably promise to be more observant of the nature around us. The same thing is true with the creek. It could not be taken away without destroying the interdependence between the Alumnae Center and nature. "Most of us at one time or another...have taken for granted categorical dualisms such as...eternal vs. mortal, man vs. nature,...spiritual vs. material. By looking only at the opposite poles of these dichotomies we tend to ignore everything between them and fail to recognize the dependency of each pole on the other, or the possibilities of the simultaneous presence of both and of a larger whole which contains both opposites." In reference to the categorical dualism of man vs. nature, it is really not man vs. nature, but more of a higher spirit or higher being vs. man and nature. "Recombination of opposites is the conscious generation of creativity by dwelling on the interdependence of apparently mutually exclusive opposites and the larger whole which contains them both." Man and nature are constantly working together and have developed into a completely intertwined, unified process. It is valid to say that man depends on nature, but nature is not necessarily dependent upon man. This leads to the dichotomy of eternal vs. mortal. The "larger whole/spirit" which contains and controls both opposites has seemed to make nature eternal and man mortal. Nature has been around forever and man has only recently come into this process.