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water photograph by mark whitney

Natural Aesthetics: Emerson, Thoreau, and Muir
by Mark Whitney
In my last post I mentioned a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson because all this talk of whether it is better to appreciate nature through the steady empirical eyes of science or the soaring imaginative eyes ...
Water photograph by Mark Whitney

Natural Aesthetics: Going Beyond Science
by Mark Whitney
In my last post, Appreciating Nature with Science, we talked about Allen Carlson's idea that the best framework for properly appreciating nature as nature is science. Knowing a bit of natural history and environmental science ...
Stones in water by Mark Whitney

Appreciating Nature with Science
by Mark Whitney
In my first post about appreciating nature we saw that appreciating nature as itself, as nature, and not as "the environment" or as merely a backdrop for our activities, etc. is a lot more difficult than ...
Artist: Mark D. Whitney, Media: Digital Photograph

Nat101: Nature Appreciation 101
by Mark Whitney
Remember those old freshman college appreciation courses like Art Appreciation 102? Classes that got you some easy credits and were intended to give you a well rounded education. You're fresh out of high school majoring in ...