Are Humans Domesticated by Nature?

     In Swentzell's article, "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School,"  the author writes,
     "Pueblo people believe that the primary and most important relationship for humans is with the land, the natural environment, and the cosmos, which in the pueblo world are synonymous.  Humans exist within the cosmos and are an integral part of the functioning of the earth community.
       The mystical nature of the land, the earth, is recognized and honored. Direct contact and interaction with the land, the natural environment, is sought.  In the pueblo, there are no manipulated outdoor areas that serve to distinguish humans from nature. There are no outdoor areas that attest to human control over nature, no areas where nature is domesticated" (56).
     The word "domesticated" is usually connected to a type of animal.  But in this situation the author is talking about how nature domesticated.  We are not able to control it. Humans would like to think that we have control over just about everything.  When it comes to nature, we are completely humbled.  I think this is one of the reasons the "New  World" and America seemed so scary or overwhelming to the first Americans.  Europe was domesticated. The people had gotten used to the weather, they knew what to expect of the nature.  America was and is different.  We have so many different climates that we can never know what nature will do.  I think that part of why nature is so important to the American people is that it is something we can connect with.  It is a higher "power" but it domesticates us and can even make us feel at home.  Nature (in a way) domesticates us.  It teaches us how to live and behave in the nature settings we have around us.