The meanings of the word nurture relate to (1) nutrition; (2) caring; or (3) the sum of environmental aspects that influence behavior and the traits expressed by an organism.
There is plenty of philosophical debate on the value of inheritance and experiences to the human being. If you are interested in that you might want to check the writings of John Locke, Freud, Skinner, and Margaret Mead, on one hand, or of E. O. Wilson, and genetics, on the other.
But here is no place to feed on this type of discussion. More so because I STRONGLY believe that nature manifests through nurture, and nurture through nature - and that this relationship shapes our personality, health, attitudes and behaviour. The question here is how to nurture nature - our individual nature AND the collective one - the so-called "external" nature. However... here we start by the belief that they're both the same.
