But nature is like metal in the sense that metal is brutally honest about life. One reason we humans think that nature is metal, rather than just thinking nature is nature, is because we are so separate from it. Yes, nature is metal, because both nature and metal are life. Nature and metal are not constrained by human-imposed, artificial constructs about how we would like to believe the world works. That is the beauty of living in a natural, very metal, world: it’s reality.