Living without wild things divides humans into two fundamental kinds
Evidence
THERE are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot. … Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 2
Categorization
- XREF: Recasts seeing geese and pasque-flowers as inalienable rights, parallel to listening/observation as core method in the landscape and soundscape courses. — connects to: Recreation policy should build human perception rather than build roads — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 607; Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465; Mechanistic reduction extends nature’s instrumentalisation to humans rather than ending dualism — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 458 (+2 more)
- SEED: Leopold’s minority/company frame is an angle for an essay on what attentive field observation costs and who can afford its stance.
Broader Connections
- Protection by exclusion reflects a worldview that sets humans apart from nature
#expands(0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 572 - Mechanistic reduction extends nature’s instrumentalisation to humans rather than ending dualism
#expands(0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 458 - Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike
#expands(0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465 - Human domination of nature increased our isolation from other species
#corroborates(0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 486