This text explores the ontological distinction between inanimate objects, plants, and animals through their relationship with their surroundings. While a stone is passively situated within its environment, defined only by an external observer, even the simplest plant actively transforms its surroundings into a "living environment." A plant functions as a complex internal structure that selectively absorbs energy and inorganic compounds, asserting its relative sovereignty as the center of its own world. The analysis further examines how these relationships become more sophisticated in animals, who, through mobility and detachment from their immediate vicinity, gain the capacity to change and organize their environment. Although animals exhibit more efficient action-oriented capabilities, the author notes that the global impact of plants remains more significant. Ultimately, the reflection characterizes life as an active process of relating to the exterior, whereby an organism influences its medium to retroactively affect itself and secure the conditions necessary for its continued existence.