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> I've never been very fond of nature to begin with > [0] - Specifically at human/humane, live in and breathe in and admire it scale. I'm very fond of nature a
by saghm 3y ago
> I've never been very fond of nature to begin with
> [0] - Specifically at human/humane, live in and breathe in and admire it scale. I'm very fond of nature at population scale, and at molecular scale, both of which present interesting puzzles and applications.
I can relate to this a lot. I feel the same way about nature as I do about a tiger or a volcano; I think they're cool and I respect them, but I don't care to spend time up close with them.
- LorenDB 3y agoAt risk of being pedantic, tigers and volcanoes are nature.
- saghm 3y agoI don't see why it's inconsistent for me to feel similarly about a small part of something as I do about the whole, or why it might not be rhetorically useful to help explain something by drawing a comparison between them