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When you spend a certain amount of time engaging in .... non-human.... environments - that is, what is conventionally called "nature" (which is a misnomer, as w
by pnathan 9y ago
When you spend a certain amount of time engaging in .... non-human.... environments - that is, what is conventionally called "nature" (which is a misnomer, as we all exist in nature), your perceptions of the human life start to shift and mutate. Things like time become a little less exact. The romantic view of wildlife evaporates. The difference is stark between someone who has spent that amount of time and someone who is a dilettante or a tenderfoot.
It's important to be careful in our thinking about it. Someone who just likes being out of buildings or driving an ATV - neither ipso facto wrong - is different in kind than Fuller, Muir, or the other individuals who know their land.
- solipsism 9y agoFuller walks around looking at the world through artificial lenses. He sleeps in a warm bed at night. There are some for whom that life is far too removed from wilderness. You draw an arbitrary line between someone who drives an ATV into nature ("a dilettante or a tenderfoot")and Steven Fuller. You could put the line anywhere, and on any number of different spectra. You talk about the evaporation of the romantic view, and yet you have an incredibly romantic (and arbitrary) perspective.