Price introduction
Uneasiness with American definitions of nature
- how do we understand the relationship between nature and
human culture
- criticizes both sides
- nature is there for us to exploit
- nature knows best (balance of nature)
- nature as a place that saves your soul,
nature as meaning
- that sees nature as something pure and far
away that is separate from us and will save us
- interesting
study of such issues
- local residents are comfortable with
visible management of natural areas
- people who visit from far away see any
visible human intervention as making it less natural
- nature is out there, a place apart
Is nature out there, or is it in the places where
we live?
we experience the natural world most through mass culture
vision of nature as a not-modern place
- Modern = a person who advocates or practices
a departure from traditional styles or values
- the Modern era is the period from about 1890
to 1960
- modern
art
- what do we see nature as the opposite of?
- the machine
- the city
- control and order (nature is freedom)
Jennifer Price says she never planned to become a Thoreau of
the mall
