It is an ever ending debate as is the concept of "organic farming".
It is organic yet still very toxic. Yes we are a part of nature yet
very adept at manipulating it. Some people may wonder if Beavers are
a part of nature!! I digress!
Julia Fiske
New England Environmental, Inc
9 Research Drive
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone 413-256-0202
Fax 413-256-1092
On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:01 PM, "Michael Clary" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Fascinating thread. The word "nature" seems to present a false
dichotomy between human influenced processes and all others, and
therefore loses it's meaning. By way of making the point, is there
*anything* that is not a part of nature?
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Tyson
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are humans part of nature?
What evidence is there that demonstrates that humans are not part of
Nature? (But I see the "hook" in this kind of question, commonly
employed to validate some cockamamie theory in the mind of some true
believers. Let them come with their theories. Let there be light.)
Can man live by aphorism alone?
WT
"In the heart of the city I have heard the wild geese crying on the
pathways that lie over a vanished forest. Nature has not changed the
force that drives them. Man, too, is a different expression of that
natural force. He has fought his way from the sea's depths to
Palomar Mountain. He has mastered the plague. Now, in some final
Armageddon, he confronts himself." --[anthropologist] Loren Eiseley,
"The Invisible Pyramid"
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Silvert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are humans part of nature?
An anthropologist writing on another mailing list wrtoe that "...
human
beings, and indeed human cultures, have developed as a part of
evolutionary
processes. This is something that a fair proportion of ecologists
do not
acknowledge. At my Ph.D. institution, I have had ecologists tell
me that
humans ARE NOT part of nature!" I find this statement remarkable,
and would
like to know whether it is indeed true that "a fair proportion of
ecologists" feel that "humans ARE NOT part of nature". Comments on
this
would be welcome.
Bill Silvert
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