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Do you think nature plays a part in mankind creation or has anything to do with it? Nature is the most important aspect of life mankind needs, without nature people would not be able to find food, or survive the harsh living conditions, also civilization wouldn’t exist most importantly without it we would be extinct. First off, nature has been existing before man that’s why in native American literature nature is used for explaining most questions people have about their culture. In the World on the Turtles Back it states, “from her grave grew the plants which the people still use.” This gives an explanation to the people of the Iroquois and other tribes that nature has been providing with all we must this vary day. And stated in the World

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