Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Classification of Nature

As humans we really need to split everything up and organize it all. It seems that humans have taken it as their god given responsibility to name and categorize everything. This feeling extends from what we can see and touch to the world of emotions and concerns triggered by nature. It seems that the majority of humans split nature into the categories of pastoral and sublime. These categories are fine by me. Though I think they exist, pastoral and sublime nature do not always have to be that way. As we shift our vantage point from us to the squirrel on the log, the marlin in the sea, the hare in the dessert, or the goat on the mountain we see these definitions shift and change. That simply is an idea that must be kept in mind, we are not the only who perceive nature. And of course from our stand point some more categories than sublime and pastoral might help in our endeavor to categorize the world.

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