Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental CultureRoutledge, 2016 M04 29 - 206 pages This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture. The fundamental idea is that the environmental degradation that we are increasingly experiencing is best conceived as the consequence of a cultural mismatch: our cultures seem not to be appropriate to the natural environment in which we move and on which we depend in thoroughgoing ways. In addressing this problem, Thomas Heyd weaves together a rich tapestry of perspectives on human interactions with the natural world, ranging from traditional modes of managing human communities that include the natural environment, to the consideration of poetic travelogues, ecological restoration and botanic gardens. The volume is divided into three parts, which respectively consider the relation of human beings to nature in terms of ethics, aesthetics and culture. It engages the current literature in each of these areas with the help of inter-disciplinary approaches, as well as on the basis of personal encounters with natural spaces and processes. The ultimate aim of this book is to make a contribution to the development of a cultural fabric that is suitable to the natural spaces and processes in which we may thrive, and on which we all depend as individuals and as a species. |
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... experience than walking on this giant mountain (which curiously looks like a bulging pancake). After the first day's walk through lush Koa forests, I eventually left behind the last bushes and islands of grasses and was entirely ...
... experience than walking on this giant mountain (which curiously looks like a bulging pancake). After the first day's walk through lush Koa forests, I eventually left behind the last bushes and islands of grasses and was entirely ...
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... experiences of those that preceded me, on the basis of the light traces that they have left behind. After arriving exhausted on the top of the mountain constituted by the edge of the Moku'aweoweo crater, I gazed down at the nearly 200 m ...
... experiences of those that preceded me, on the basis of the light traces that they have left behind. After arriving exhausted on the top of the mountain constituted by the edge of the Moku'aweoweo crater, I gazed down at the nearly 200 m ...
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... experience of coming off the mountain felt the way it must be like to come out of a spell or an hypnotic trance. The exuberance of the vegetation in the rain-soaked part of the island, together with the many people I suddenly had to ...
... experience of coming off the mountain felt the way it must be like to come out of a spell or an hypnotic trance. The exuberance of the vegetation in the rain-soaked part of the island, together with the many people I suddenly had to ...
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... experiences that nature can offer. Notably, however, the natural environments to which I was exposed had long been inhabited by human beings. In that region, hilltop towns were fortified, at least after the Christian conquest of the ...
... experiences that nature can offer. Notably, however, the natural environments to which I was exposed had long been inhabited by human beings. In that region, hilltop towns were fortified, at least after the Christian conquest of the ...
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... experience, and the combined record of humanity, attest to the fact that human beings are not necessarily selfish in this sense (even if people normally give priority to their own interests and to the interests of those that they feel ...
... experience, and the combined record of humanity, attest to the fact that human beings are not necessarily selfish in this sense (even if people normally give priority to their own interests and to the interests of those that they feel ...
Contents
A Call to Action | |
Appreciating Nature | |
Recuperating Space Recognizing Place | |
Rock Art and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Natural Landscapes | |
Culture and Nature | |
Art and Heterotopias | |
Learning from Japanese Gardens | |
Botanic Gardens as Collaboration Between Humans and Nature | |
Enabling an Environmental Culture | |
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