Capitalist modernity has meant for the world the metabolic rupture between human beings and nature, thus carrying out an economic project devastating for the environment, the original peoples, and movements in tension with capital accumulation. Under this problem, a bibliographic analysis is made on the relations between human beings and nature, oriented to the expansion of the concept of the metabolic rupture to the stripping of the emotions and meanings about nature. A category of human being and nature is made explicit, part of a metabolic whole, but which in science and society have been considered as dissociated. In this way, it is presented that in different stages of the social system capitalist modernity breaks this relationship to ...