Comments on: Living in nature http://ongoingprocess.net/living-in-nature/ Spirit, geekness, and life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Chris http://ongoingprocess.net/living-in-nature/#comment-23625 Chris Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:12:00 +0000 http://ongoingprocess.net/living-in-nature/#comment-23625 Good point about humans not being separate from nature. I still tend to fall into that one myself. We need a better word than "nature" for this context. What I'm really trying to say is "the world outside of modern human construction", but I don't think we have a word for that. Hiking sounds great! I'll email you. :) Good point about humans not being separate from nature. I still tend to fall into that one myself.

We need a better word than “nature” for this context. What I’m really trying to say is “the world outside of modern human construction”, but I don’t think we have a word for that.

Hiking sounds great! I’ll email you. :)

]]> By: Katie 80 http://ongoingprocess.net/living-in-nature/#comment-23623 Katie 80 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:45:01 +0000 http://ongoingprocess.net/living-in-nature/#comment-23623 DEFINITELY. I think it's also important to remember that the idea that human beings are separate from nature is just foolishness. Cities may be intentional spaces where we can pretend we're in charge, but so are anthills. As long as we go on thinking that a movie theater is less natural than a forest we're participating in the delusion that human beings are not animals and that our tool use is not a part of nature, which is a silly Western fantasy rooted in the Abrahamic religions. Well, more than silly, it's environmentally catastrophic. On that note, we should go hiking some weekend (or weekday, if you have one off). DEFINITELY. I think it’s also important to remember that the idea that human beings are separate from nature is just foolishness. Cities may be intentional spaces where we can pretend we’re in charge, but so are anthills. As long as we go on thinking that a movie theater is less natural than a forest we’re participating in the delusion that human beings are not animals and that our tool use is not a part of nature, which is a silly Western fantasy rooted in the Abrahamic religions. Well, more than silly, it’s environmentally catastrophic.

On that note, we should go hiking some weekend (or weekday, if you have one off).

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