I haven't read any new material, but I wanted to touch on the theme of Nature in Moon's story.
Moon is essentially saying that the human race is becoming less and less connected with nature - which I agree and disagree with. For the most part, yes, we are becoming more distant from nature. However, there are still a very large number of people that still try their best to connect with nature.
I'm not a nature freak and I don't hug trees or anything, but when I am distant from nature for too long, I begin to feel very uncomfortable. Whenever I go to Taiwan, it's simply a miracle just passing by a tree. Every part of Taiwan is urban (Even when they say you're going to the rural areas! Nope - still looks like the city) - there's seldom any open space except in the middle of giant city street intersections, but by then the open space is occupied by vehicles. I don't mind staying there for a little bit, but I can't find myself living in a place like Taiwan for too long because there's seldom any signs of 'healthy nature'. I'd probably find myself going to distant state parks often.
Almost all of my photographs are of nature, and if you strip that away from me I can find new things to photograph, but will my sanity remain the same? I tolerate cities like San Francisco and New York because they have possibly the most beautiful city parks I have ever seen, so they have local nature places I can escape to. But places like Taiwan are little too much. To get in touch with nature as even as large a scale like here in Cupertino, you'd have to travel a bit.
I like the woods, too, but the tall trees kind of remind me of tall buildings and it just goes back to 'where is all the empty space?' But I will say that forest air makes my skin look very nice and it's just healthier to breathe in all that extra oxygen.
Moon is essentially saying that the human race is becoming less and less connected with nature - which I agree and disagree with. For the most part, yes, we are becoming more distant from nature. However, there are still a very large number of people that still try their best to connect with nature.
I'm not a nature freak and I don't hug trees or anything, but when I am distant from nature for too long, I begin to feel very uncomfortable. Whenever I go to Taiwan, it's simply a miracle just passing by a tree. Every part of Taiwan is urban (Even when they say you're going to the rural areas! Nope - still looks like the city) - there's seldom any open space except in the middle of giant city street intersections, but by then the open space is occupied by vehicles. I don't mind staying there for a little bit, but I can't find myself living in a place like Taiwan for too long because there's seldom any signs of 'healthy nature'. I'd probably find myself going to distant state parks often.
Almost all of my photographs are of nature, and if you strip that away from me I can find new things to photograph, but will my sanity remain the same? I tolerate cities like San Francisco and New York because they have possibly the most beautiful city parks I have ever seen, so they have local nature places I can escape to. But places like Taiwan are little too much. To get in touch with nature as even as large a scale like here in Cupertino, you'd have to travel a bit.
I like the woods, too, but the tall trees kind of remind me of tall buildings and it just goes back to 'where is all the empty space?' But I will say that forest air makes my skin look very nice and it's just healthier to breathe in all that extra oxygen.
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