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E-book Human and Nature
The meaning of the word “nature” and its multiple imperfect translations has various connotations in different contexts and cultures. For my Indonesian friend, nature means tropical forests and coral reefs. For her, nature is timeless and unchanging. For me, it is capricious and ever-changing. Nature means trees in all their variations, golden flowers, wide red leaves, dark needles and covered with silent snow. Depending on what nature means for each of us, even time flows differently, beating to the cadences of the seasons or standing still like pond water. Maybe to escape the traps of these nuances, sciences and most of the mainstream international political discourses prefer to use the supposedly more precise word “environment”. Yet, until recently, the perceiver has been forgotten, and the “natural environment” is taken to be independent and isolated.
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