BIOL 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Deism
22 Mar 2016
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Appreciaion for the wilderness began in the ciies. They saw wilderness they way they wanted to. Romanic movement: idealizaion of a life closer to nature, wild country lost much of its repulsiveness, a few american with literary interests began to adopt favourable aitudes, pioneer view was diicult to discount enirely, romanicism. Enthusiasm for the strange, remote, solitary and mysterious: in regard to nature romanics preferred the wild. It provided an escape from society: primiivism. Believed that a man"s happiness and wellbeing decreases directly with his proporion to his degree of civilizaion. Idealized contemporary cultures nearer to savagery or a previous age in which man lead a simpler and beter existence. Believed that the wild heal love, peace and harmony. Enlightenment mind: began to see the wilderness as a creaion of god. Fear of the wilderness stemmed from exultaion not loathing.
