Hi!
I'm currently supervising a student who wants to explore some ideas
about architecture and how architectural forms influence how people,
and children in particular, form perceptions about this thing
called Nature.
I'm looking for leading references on the topic and would love to
hear from anyone who has some insights here!
Thanks,
Chris Anjema
York University
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 3 10:03:40 MST 1995
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 12:03:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Michelle_Covi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: Michelle_Covi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Michelle_Covi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: individuals' relationship to the environment
To: Susan Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 2 Mar 1995, Susan Clayton wrote:
>
> How would you describe your relationship to/with the natural world? I'm
> interested in the words you would choose.
>
First of all I would like to thank J. Higgins-Rosebrook for sharing
her(?) world with us. It must be wonderful to have such an opportunity to
live close with nature as you do.
I am a biologist/ecologist, so I have a professional/academic
relationship with nature. I am currently teaching and striving for many
different ways to describe the natural world to my students in a very
logical and reasonable way, through the processes of science. I also have
a very strong emotional and even spiritual response to the natural world.
This is a more personal view that I think I share with many of you.
Although I don't live especially close to nature, in a small city, with a
small yard and garden, and a job that is indoors most of the time, I seek
parks and wild places as much as possible in my free time. Experiences in
wild places recharge my spirit. I would describe my relationship with
nature as of the mind (through science), of the body (through hikes) and
of the spirit.
> In addition, prompted by the personal/political question a week or so back,
> what do you think are an individual's responsibilities (if any) to the
> environment? Could you or would you identify a different (or overlapping)
> set of responsibilities that a society/government has to the environment?
>
I agree that the personal is political and seemingly innocent choices,
our diet, our clothing, etc. can have political impacts. The principle of
'harm none' is a good simple tenet to keep in mind, but must be
interpeted by each individual. I believe that each person has the
responsibility to live in as sustainable a fashion as possible. I guess
we can't help but harm the organisms that we feed on (plants or animals).
I think the best we can do is harm the ecosystem as little as possible.
We all rely upon some types of agriculture for food, clothing and
shelter, but I believe we should support, through our government,
sustainable agriculture and sustainable energy systems. I see the
government as also responsible for controlling the amount of harm that
can be done by others.
My $.02
Michelle Covi
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Subject: Research Assistance
Ohio University Electronic Communication
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"What grows clear is that our humanity maiming uses of gender are
mutually interdependent with a number of other humanly maiming societal
phenomena: with forms of community, for example, that are coercive and
constrictive, and/or depersonalized and chaotic and alienated; with
predatory dehumanizing economic life-ways; with racial and ethnic hatred
and exploitation; with war; with the butchery of nature. The greed,
violence, and power-lust that pervade the history and present public
structure of our species' life, the ways in which this technologically
brilliant species has by now become a cancer on the earth's live body,
and the normal psychopathology of which our traditional sexual
arrangements are both a manifestation and a prop - all of these
interpenetrate: they can be surmounted only as a single formation,
simultaneously."
1) Does this quotation sound familiar to anyone? If so do you recall where it
is from? I have written down Dorothy Dinnerstein in something called Face to
Face in 1983, but I suspect that is wrong. I can't seem to locate Face to Face.
I want very much to use this quotation in a paper I am writing but don't know
how to cite it.
2) Can anyone suggest sources where similar arguments are made. I am especially
interested in the interpenetration thesis.
3) Reaction to this quote? Do you agree?
Thanks for your time.
Love
Jeffrey
Ohio U.
