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Humans become less human and lose their understanding and capacity to value the natural world without simplistic sentimentality when they are divorced from expe
by krrrh 6y ago
Humans become less human and lose their understanding and capacity to value the natural world without simplistic sentimentality when they are divorced from experiencing it. There’s a balance.
The world is already rewilding without segregation[1], but I’ve benefitted massively from backcountry camping and hunting, it’s turned me into an ardent conservationist, and I think we’d have a better more respectful relationship with nature if some more of us did the same.
[1] https://longnow.org/seminars/02015/jan/13/nature-rebounding-land-and-ocean-sparing-through-concentrating-human-activities/ https://longnow.org/seminars/02015/jan/13/nature-rebounding-...