Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

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Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns- wilderness and nature among them-are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.