Natural Sounding Music

This is in response to Sarah’s question; do you ever think we will incorporate early music (music of nature) with our newer "popular" music today?
I believe that there are a few answers to this question. If you want to know if popular music will utilize technology and imitate the sounds of nature then I think that the answer is yes. If you are questioning whether or not some artist, band or composer, is going to go out into the woods and record and use what he finds there, maybe. Do I think that nature and its sounds are going to start dominating the music scene today, not so much.
Technology is making things a lot easier for the lives of recording artists. With computerized music one does not need to say go out and get a sample recording of rain if they want to incorporate it into their music. They can simply go into the studio and make it with their technological devices. One band that did do such a thing was Godsmack on their song On Rainy Day off their fourth studio album. Like the title says, there is rain in the audio of the piece. However Sully Erna or Shannon Larkin did not go out and record these themselves. They used a previously created sound bite that was probably in some catalogue. So is this incorporating nature into popular music, well Godsmack is a popular band, and the rain can be found in nature but is it really a natural sound when it was created by man in a sound booth?
This also brings me to my next point, which is whether or not musicians will take the time to go out and record the sounds themselves. This I do think is possible. Musicians are by nature a creative being so it does not seem to be out of the realm of possibility that someone will want to actually get a recording of living birds to put into their piece. In the 60s Pink Floyd brought a dog into the studio and allowed the dog to bark and incorporated it into their album Meddle, so it is not an unheard of occurrence.
Even though there are occurrences of technology masquerading as nature or even actual nature popping up in music, I do not think that it will dominate the popular music in our society. Our culture is becoming more and more obsessed with technological advances and what can we do next that I do not see an immediate or complete return to the sounds of nature in our music of popular choice.

Question: Do you think creating nature sounds in a studio is the same as recording it from nature? Why or why not.