False Idyll

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#6216

I needed to share this somewhere, and this really seemed like the place. This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time about the relationship between humans and the natural world, and specifically about how a sanitized version of “nature,” where no more threat exists, has led to romanticization and ultimately, a far more superficial connection;

False Idyll by J. B. MacKinnon

I would highly recommend reading it all the way through.

[Raymond Coffman]

#49082

Thanks Smithhammer –

Very Impressive! I agree!-

It was interesting to read the comments on the site—

Scout

[kellydockter]

#49144

like coming home – i love that. thats what the woods are to me. thanks sh

[Wexbow]

#49965

Very interesting article. Personally I reckon a sanitised environmnet is an evolutionary inevitability – man’s extreme position being pushed to it’s extreme Darwinian conclusion…

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