lucid vagary

I use the term Nature as a category on this site rather than evironment for a very specific reason. The word evironment seems to convey that the implicit relationship between humanity and it’s surroundings are somehow seperate, disconncted. Nature, on the other hand, seems more inclusive.

I’ve been a nature enthusiast for awhile. I love to bike through forests, go camping, canoeing, etc. For years now, I’ve read the works of the like of Emerson, John Burroughs, Thoreau, Whitman, John Muir (see a transcendentalist 18th century pattern unfolding here?), and today’s Theodore Roszak’s Voice of the Earth.
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