relationship with nature
how humanity interacts with nature in both positive and negative ways, more philosophical than the 'climate/sustainability' tag
by Keely Adler and · updated 3mo ago
relationship with nature
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The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land afrom We Are Not the Only "Who" by Olivia Vagelos
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
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Soft Matter, Deep Time — Institute for Postnatural Studies
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Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
from From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
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- Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side. ― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
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