History Main / InHarmonyWithNature

* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The elves are almost universally vegetarian and use magic to bend nature to their will.
%%%* In ''Literature/HowILiveNow'', nine-year-old Piper
* Neville Longbottom, from ''Literature/HarryPotter'', is an Herbology prodigy, eventually taking over the Professorship in that subject upon the retirement of Professor Sprout.
* This trope is parodied with various characters in ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm'', notably Elfine.
-->"She learns from the skies and the wild marsh-tiggets, not out o' books."\\
"How trying," observed Flora.
* In ''Literature/{{Adiamante}}'', a science fiction novel by Creator/LEModesittJr, the future people of Earth are In Harmony With Nature because they ''have'' to be. The environmental damage of the past has so damaged the planet that even the most "minor" disruptions would have big consequences.
* In the ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', the Kazarites and Irriol are two races like this. The Kazarites have telepathic and empathic links with animals, and accordingly have a culture greatly concerned with preserving natural ecosystems. This empathy extends to animals beyond Kazar itself, allowing them to aid in the restoration of other, more damaged planets. In ''Literature/StarTrekMereAnarchy'', their "eco-paths" play a role in the terraforming of central planet Mestiko, which has been heavily damaged by a pulsar. The Irriol are even more In Harmony With Nature, to the point where they are willing to sacrifice their lives to predators if they sense that the ecosphere is better served by their deaths.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Parodied when the wizards expected Mustrum Ridcully to be a "roams the forests with [[FriendToAllLivingThings every beast his brother]]" talking-to-birds type, because he was a wizard who lived in the countryside. He turned out to be a GreatWhiteHunter who ''shouted'' at birds ("Winged yer, yer bastard!"), but he's still more in harmony with nature than the other wizards, who never leave the city if they can avoid it.
** Magrat seems to ''expect'' witches to embody this trope, even though she's seen enough of them to know they're more farm-oriented than wilderness-oriented. Witches ''were'' generally depicted as more In Harmony With Nature than bookish wizards, at least until ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'' pointed out that urban witches are entirely possible.
* Dickon in ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' astounds even his family with how happy he is on the moors and how well he gets along with animals. He teaches Mary, Colin, and even Ben Weatherstaff to do the same, though his knack is always the best.
* In ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'', Alm-Uncle has many elements of this trope (with the comeuppance that he is not a people person.) Heidi manages to live in harmony with the goats ''and'' [[FriendToAllLivingThings charm everyone around her]]. She also suffers in city environments.
* In ''Literature/TheBlueCastle'', Barney lives this way, and when Valancy comes along to live with him she takes to it like a fish to water.
* In fact, the vast majority of Creator/LMMontgomery heroines possess this trope. In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', Anne asserts that she could never be happy someplace that didn't have trees. ''Literature/JaneOfLanternHill'' blossoms when she moves out to the countryside, is a great gardener, and even before then, had an affinity for the moon. Marigold (from ''Magic for Marigold'') loves nothing better than to roam the hills and shore of Prince Edward Island.
* In Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''The Changeling'', Ivy Carson is a combination of this, NatureLover and an EarthyBarefootCharacter. In fact, she comes within a hair's breadth of being a FriendToAllLivingThings. This is why it's so jarring when we're told she ends up studying ballet in New York City.
* The Sevenwaters clan in ''Literature/TheSevenwatersTrilogy''. They are also [[BarbarianTribe savage]], [[ProudWarriorRace warlike]], and [[ForeverWar constantly feuding]] with, well, everyone.
** Sorcha herself is a [[NatureHero pretty good example]].
* In ''Literature/CookingWithWildGame'', the tribe of Forest's Edge is valued ('''not''' respected) by their urban overlords because they're the only people badass enough to live in the local HungryJungle, alongside the bloodthirsty Kiba that would ravage farms if the tribe's hunters didn't keep their population in check. The tribe literally isn't allowed anything but what they can buy from the city or gather from a small section of the wilderness, yet they have survived and thrived, because, as mentioned: badass. Naturally, their belief system centers around thanking the forest for its blessings, and they are very angry when it's confirmed that [[spoiler:the Suun clan aren't doing their duty to the food chain or the farmers]].
* In Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/{{Once}}'', the ''[[OurFairiesAreDifferent faerefolkis]]'', by nurture of nature, enables Earth to support life. They long for a time when abandonment of materialism will reacquaint humanity with "the grand consciousness," and with their elemental forebears.
* In ''Literature/HayyIbnYaqzan'', Hayy decides that killing animals and plants anymore than necessary is wrong, because it prevents them from fulfilling the purposes that God created them for. He only eats as much as he needs to to stay healthy, only hunts the most abundant animals, tries to avoid eating unripe plants, and scatters the seeds in fertile soil. He also helps any animal that he sees in need, waters plants, and removes blockages in streams so more creatures can drink from them.
* The aliens in ''Literature/TheColorOfDistance'' are an interesting case: they've lived peacefully for untold millennia hunting, gathering, and cultivating bees, in idyllic rainforest villages where each adult is tasked with keeping a part of the ecosystem in harmony. And they can do the link thing from ''Avatar'', but better. This sounds like a setup for the author lecturing readers on how much wiser and nobler her aliens are than those disgusting polluting humans, but instead, their harmony with nature also makes them creepy-to-horrifying casual about dying ([[spoiler:Killing themselves when their apprentice metamorphoses into an adult to avoid overpopulation]], [[spoiler:killing themselves when the land's carrying capacity falls and someone has to go]], [[spoiler:[[EatsBabies eating their tadpoles]]]]...), so they're not depicted as superior. Yet they're not depicted as a FalseUtopia either, they and humanity are both amazed by the other.

* Cody Lundin of ''Series/DualSurvival'' is another example, trying to live as close to nature as possible and having worn neither long pants, shoes, nor underwear in the last 20 years. However, he's no idiot (the man ''knows'' how to survive in potentially deadly situations) and is willing to compromise in some situations (he'll wear protective footwear in terrain that warrants it, like snowfields and sharp rocks).

%%%* The subject of "In Perfect Harmony" by Music/WithinTemptation, natch.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Druids. Their spells tend to be split between clerical 'holy' spells and spells that affect and draw on nature. Some can also shape-shift to battle.
** Rangers are also generally portrayed like this but have more leeway. Barbarians and spirit shamans are also liable to be associated with this.
** Fifth Edition's subclasses have added ways to turn less-nature classes into this:
*** The Nature domain for Clerics gives access to a number of Druid spells and a number of plant and animal manipulating abilities.
*** The Scout archetype for Rogues turns you into a hardened survivalist and guerilla fighter, similar to the Ranger.
** In the 5th edition, forest elves have a racial feat called "Mask of the Wild" that enables them to hide in natural areas with ease.
* In ''TabletopGame/InNomine'', this is especially common for angels of Flowers, whose gifts relate to plants, nature, joy, and peace. But even [[NatureIsNotNice roses have thorns,]] and the Archangel of Flowers does have a few, warrior Malakim for those times when trying kindness first simply does not work.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' features druids, who are described as this. Night elf and Tauren druids especially.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'''s Night Elves are so in harmony their lumber gatherer doesn't even harm the trees (though it gathers five units at a time when the other factions get ten or twenty).
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', where an elven clan living in the woods is mistrustful of outsiders for all the usual elfy reasons. Then it turns out that [[spoiler: they're actually in conflict with a local nature spirit whom their Keeper invoked to put a curse on the humans who raped and murdered his children. Problem is, that was ''centuries'' ago - the curse has kept spirit and Keeper alive long past their time, and is now only hurting the killers' descendants (and causing problems for the elves too).]]
* The [[AdvancedAncientHumans Cetra or Ancients]] as they are sometimes known in VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII are an entire race of people like this combining motifs from both Judaism and the Animist traditions.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', this is the main deal with the Eldrid. They believe in the natural order of the universe and prefer harmonizing with universal laws rather than altering them as seen with their abilities and technology. For this, they've been called space hippies by other factions. Although they may come off as such, that doesn't mean they're pacifists who'll just hug it out when pushed. They'll fight to preserve the natural order of the universe against those who would disrupt it.
* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', any civilization or creature with the [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] tag. NatureIsNotNice, and most creatures, knowing this, consider wildlife hostile by default. With this tag, Nature makes an exception and is nice just to you, at least as long as you don't provoke it. Elves have it, of course, as do cats for some reason.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': The Tree Clan Prone is a downplayed example. They are big on being in tune with the cycle of life, hunting for their food, training wild animals, etc. but they don't disdain technology, nor do they look down on the more technologically advanced people they come into contact with. The closest any of them comes is one warrior stating a preference for bow and arrow over the advanced firearms and plasma weapons available, but conversations with other Prone indicate this is more just that one guy's opinion and not representative of their whole culture. [[spoiler:Another Prone does admit some confusion and disgust upon hearing that the humans abandoned their natural bodies for robotic ones, saying that the Prone would never consider doing such a thing... but he also doesn't judge humanity for it, recognizing they only did so out of extreme need and knowing that humans are desperately trying to return to natural bodies.]]
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', as seen in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'''s ''Bloodmoon'' expansion and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''[='s=] ''Dragonborn'' DLC, the NobleSavage [[BadassNative Skaal]] people of the [[GrimUpNorth frozen, inhospitable]] island of Solstheim follow "The Path of the All-Maker." Whatever is taken from the All-Maker must be repaid somehow. For example, their hunters only kill when absolutely necessary as part of the cycle of life, and never for sport. They only harvest firewood from fallen trees, never cutting down live trees for it.

* Kuraii, from a type of cat species in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil'', is as close to nature as most sentient beings could ever be.

* In a CampingEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Marge and Lisa were separated from the rest of their family. With nothing, they managed to have a nice fire and a comfortable place to rest. Marge was even seen sweeping out the hut and arranging the living animals in a row. Homer and Bart, on the other hand, were not so lucky...
* The ponies, in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', aren't so much in harmony with nature as crucial to its functioning. They clean up the winter snow, change the seasons and the weather, tend to the 'wild' animals, and nurture the plants. The characters even speak of the Everfree Forest as an unnatural place because the plants grow on their own and the animals take care of themselves, and the clouds move on their own.
* The [[PaperMaster Wood Forgers]] seen in the ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]'' episode "The Forest of Magi Oar" think they are this, being Forest's self-proclaimed guardians. [[spoiler:They're not. Their desire for power is ''harming'' the forest (through a paper mill), so much so that Viragor, the ''true'' guardian of the Forest, wants to evict them.]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': The Tree Clan Prone is a downplayed example. They are big on being in tune with the cycle of life, hunting for their food, training wild animals, etc. but they don't disdain technology, nor do they look down on the more technologically advanced people they come into contact with. The closest any of them comes is one warrior stating a preference for bow and arrow over the advanced firearms and plasma weapons available, but conversations with other Prone indicate this is more just that one guy and not representative of their whole culture. [[spoiler:Another Prone does admit some confusion and disgust upon hearing that the humans abandoned their natural bodies for robotic ones, saying that the Prone would never consider doing such a thing... but he also doesn't judge humanity for it, recognizing they only did so out of extreme need and knowing that humans are desperately trying to return to natural bodies.]]

* The aliens in ''Literature/TheColorOfDistance'' are an interesting case: they've lived peacefully for untold millennia hunting, gathering, and cultivating bees, in idyllic rainforest villages where each adult is tasked with keeping a part of the ecosystem in harmony. And they can do the link thing from ''Avatar'', but better. This sounds like a setup for the author lecturing readers on how much wiser and nobler her aliens are than those disgusting polluting humans, but instead, their harmony with nature also makes them casual about dying in ways that range from creepy to horrifying ([[spoiler:Killing themselves when their apprentice metamorphoses into an adult to avoid overpopulation]], [[spoiler:killing themselves when the land's carrying capacity falls and someone has to go]], [[spoiler:[[EatsBabies eating their tadpoles]]]]...), so they're not depicted as superior. Yet they're not depicted as a FalseUtopia either, they and humanity are both amazed by the other.

* The aliens in ''Literature/TheColorOfDistance'' are an interesting case: they've lived peacefully for untold millennia hunting, gathering, and cultivating bees, in idyllic rainforest villages where each adult is tasked with keeping a part of the ecosystem in harmony. And they can do the link thing from ''Avatar'', but better. This sounds like a setup for the author lecturing readers on how much wiser and nobler her aliens are than those disgusting polluting humans, but instead, their harmony with nature also makes them casual about dying in ways that range from creepy to horrifying ([[spoiler:Killing themselves when their apprentice metamorphoses into an adult to avoid overpopulation]], [[spoiler:killing themselves when the land's carrying capacity falls and someone has to go]], [[spoiler:[[EatsBabies eating their tadpoles]]]]...), so they're not depicted as superior. Yet they're not depicted as a FalseUtopia either, they and humanity are both amazed by what the other can do.

* The aliens in ''Literature/TheColorOfDistance'' are an interesting case: they've lived peacefully for untold millennia hunting, gathering, and cultivating bees, in idyllic rainforest villages where each adult is tasked with keeping a part of the ecosystem in harmony. And they can do the link thing from ''Avatar'', but better. This sounds like a setup for the author lecturing readers on how much wiser and nobler her aliens are than those disgusting polluting humans, but instead, their harmony with nature also makes them casual about dying in ways that range from creepy to horrifying ([[spoiler:Killing themselves when their apprentice metamorphoses into an adult to avoid overpopulation]], [[spoiler:killing themselves when the land's carrying capacity falls and someone has to go]], [[spoiler:[[EatsBabies eating their tadpoles]]...), so they're not depicted as superior. Yet they're not depicted as a FalseUtopia either, they and humanity are both amazed by what the other can do.