A Country's Taste For Landscape

I found it really interesting in our reading how Aldo Leopold thought we should see nature. I specifically liked the part where he began talking about the Ohio housewife that studied sparrows and the chemist who studied pigeons. Aldo talked about how these people reached their level of expertise not because of a desire for fame but for personal satisfaction. When you're interested in something you crave to learn more, and maybe that is why we no longer see the sun. Emerson said that adults don't really see the sun, but children do. As adults you feel like you've already been there and done that  a thousand times, but as a child everything is new. You couldn't know enough about the sun. You'd stare at it so long your eyes hurt just to know why.

So what does that say about us as humans? I think our "know-it-all" adult perception has everything to do with our "onto the next thing" technological society. How long before an incredibly photoshopped landscape will be more admired than the one outside our door? Or are we already there?