The Environment: The Non-Human Environment And Its Environment

Environment literally means surrounding and everything that influence an organism during its lifetime is collectively known as its environment. The term environment means simply nature or the natural landscape together with all of its non-human features, characteristics and processes. Environment can be considered as a space or a field in which networks of relationships, interconnections and interactions between entities occur. Actually Environment is sum total of water, air and land interrelationships among themselves and also with the human being, other living organism and property. Environment is a complex of many variables, which surrounds man as well as the living organism. It includes water, air and land. Environment means everything that is around us. It can be living or non-living things. It includes physical, chemical and other natural forces. Our surrounding includes biotic factors, like human beings, plants and animals etc. and abiotic factors such as light, air, water, soil etc. Living things live in their environment. They constantly interact with it and change in response to conditions in their environment. In the environment there are interactions between animals, soil, plants, water and other living and non-living things. The environment is derived from the French word environ or ‘environner’ meaning ‘around’, ‘round about’, ‘to surround’ or ‘to encompass’. E.J.Ross said “Environment is an external force which influences us”. The environment means