“Landscape” and the role of art in our understanding of nature
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with the Rest on The Flight into Egypt, 1666 For better or for worse, most of the words and concepts we have for “nature” in English emerged from the opposition between human...
View ArticleThe ecocentric rationale for wilderness
I recently read Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Frazier Nash‘s influential landmark survey of the intellectual history of wilderness in the U.S. In the Epilogue of the fourth edition, Nash...
View ArticleSketches of Nature: Landscape Music in the Central Asian Steppe
By Александр Лещёнок, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Editor’s Note: Justin Ralls, guest author and Landscape Music Composers Network member, writes his first essay for Landscape Music. Last summer while I was...
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