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I heard someone use 'Nature' as untouched-by-humans. With the use of a capital. They didn't give any rationale. Maybe once Nature has been corrupted by humans

I heard someone use 'Nature' as untouched-by-humans. With the use of a capital. They didn't give any rationale. Maybe once Nature has been corrupted by humans it ceases to be such. Woe is human -- with our ontological flagellation. (We grant the existence of Nature only to turn it back on ourselves.)

SiempreViernes 9y ago
Man, it’s just a useful label for something that occurs independently of human presence. No need to break out the vogon poetry for that.
- decorator 9y ago
  Sure, super useful.
- decorator 9y ago
  Just looked up the Vogons. From Wikipedia: > Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" That's quite a good insult, really. Well, if what I had done was poetry. So a good insult in a different situation.
  - DonHopkins 9y ago
    Vogons are perfectly capable of corrupting Nature without the help of humans. And even restoring Nature by wiping out humans to make way for a hyperspace bypass. At least he didn't say it was bad as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings's poetry about decaying swans. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4 Or the Electronic Bard's horrible poems: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/HorriblePoems.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/HorriblePoems.html Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html
    - decorator 9y ago
      > Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement There's nought to improve. It wasn't poetry. & if you-all are suggesting my prose is poetic, then that's a compliment, not a zing.

SiempreViernes 9y ago

Man, it’s just a useful label for something that occurs independently of human presence. No need to break out the vogon poetry for that.

decorator 9y ago
Sure, super useful.
decorator 9y ago
Just looked up the Vogons. From Wikipedia: > Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" That's quite a good insult, really. Well, if what I had done was poetry. So a good insult in a different situation.
- DonHopkins 9y ago
  Vogons are perfectly capable of corrupting Nature without the help of humans. And even restoring Nature by wiping out humans to make way for a hyperspace bypass. At least he didn't say it was bad as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings's poetry about decaying swans. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4 Or the Electronic Bard's horrible poems: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/HorriblePoems.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/HorriblePoems.html Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html
  - decorator 9y ago
    > Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement There's nought to improve. It wasn't poetry. & if you-all are suggesting my prose is poetic, then that's a compliment, not a zing.