Since the onset of the so-called Industrial Revolution the environment-development relationship has undergone multiple and oftentimes deep transformations. When does the environment become an increasingly seriuos concern for mankind? Did that condition evolved from the epoch when the local environment ceased to be a simple relational reference to anyone´s life to instead becoming a global worrisome awareness? It might truly be that after man gradually civilized pristine nature, domestication changed into increasingly irresponsible spoilage forcing man to think and act otherwise. Namely, the man-nature relationship is to be re-defined, assigning man the role of protective agent, to paradoxically defend nature from society. Facing the need for a new role of culture, it is our opinion that time has come for civilized man to begin considering himself as no more than another species embedded in the environmental system. Just the same as “other societies” of living things do, ours must internalize nature, as there is no such a thing as a human exterior. Our very use of nature does not place man as an outsider; man merely is a product of nature which has evolved as a particular culture-maker. Reflexions set forth in this article are grounded around the discussion of these ideas, but from a geographical point of view.