Rock (and marmots)…
… rock and water …
…the thing that makes them similar is you. Here, the same signature shows up again, in an old gold mine in Conconully.
Fascinating, isn’t it. Here it is again at Ozette.
And here at La Push.
It’s comfortable to call these natural forces.
As soon as you do, you’ve made an unbridgeable separation, which makes your relationship to the earth …
…a matter of personal identity and emotion: forms of possession.
Let’s try honesty.
Categories: Ethics, First Peoples, Gaia, Grasslands, Light, Nature Photography, Other People, Science, Spirit, Sun
Humans do leave their signature on nature, but I do prefear separate between humans and nature. That makes Nature something bigger, wilder and much more amazing.
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It sure is. What I was, awkwardly, trying to point out, was the idea that came to me from looking through my images, that it is difficult to know what nature might be, as the way we view it is so intimately human. My point was actually much the same as yours: what a wild, big and amazing thing nature is, especially since human vision most commonly sees a human version of it.
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You pose an interesting statement … but I’m not sure if I understand it completely. What would an “honest” relationship to the earth be?
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Oh, I think seeing it as human is very honest. I figured that if we could admit that, get that out of the way, it might be possible to see more clearly what else there is in the natural world, whatever that is.
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Is this the discussion that some put forward: we’re either part of nature or apart from it?
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How does that discussion go? The terms are open-ended, so it can be used to mean anything, can’t it?
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And then some 🙂
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Ah yes, or it can be used to mean ‘nothing’… is that what you mean?
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At this point, Harold, I’m not sure. I think I accidentally wandered down a rabbit hole and lost my initial thought. 🙂
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Well, I hope there was a carrot down there.
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Too dark to tell. 🙂
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ha ha ha
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