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Thursday, April 26, 2012
#10
Do you think a lumber jack or ax man has more of an aesthetic appreciation towards nature or not?
Well, I'm not exactly talking about commercialized, large-scale work. It depends on the person. I think Bugbee's point is that modern conservation tends to place human beings outside nature so that we no longer experience it as integral in our everyday lives as in the past when the village was the outskirts of a forest and everybody worked in the fields - dependent upon the land. Nature has become something exceptional.
Well, I'm not exactly talking about commercialized, large-scale work. It depends on the person. I think Bugbee's point is that modern conservation tends to place human beings outside nature so that we no longer experience it as integral in our everyday lives as in the past when the village was the outskirts of a forest and everybody worked in the fields - dependent upon the land. Nature has become something exceptional.
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