Ecology changes what the eye sees, disclosing depth Boone could not perceive

Evidence

Daniel Boone’s reaction depended not only on the quality of what he saw, but on the quality of the mental eye with which he saw it. Ecological science has wrought a change in the mental eye. It has disclosed origins and functions for what to Boone were only facts. … The incredible intricacies of the plant and animal community—the intrinsic beauty of the organism called America, then in the full bloom of her maidenhood—were as invisible and incomprehensible to Daniel Boone as they are today to Mr. Babbitt. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 609

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘mental eye’ trained by ecology parallels The Soundscape’s ‘ear cleaning’ and the land-based reading in Osprey Wilds field interpretation. — connects to: Recreation policy should build human perception rather than build roads — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 607; Looking and being seen form ‘ecologies of looking’ where nature dominates the optics — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 518; Dualistic blind spots structurally prevent the master culture from perceiving ecological peril — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 739 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Looking and being seen form ‘ecologies of looking’ where nature dominates the optics #corroborates (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 518
• Dualistic blind spots structurally prevent the master culture from perceiving ecological peril #corroborates (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 739
• Failure to see often stems from looking in the wrong place or faintness #corroborates (0.80)