{"id":9068,"date":"2013-01-13T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/13\/what-it-takes-to-appreciate-nature\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:20:50","slug":"what-it-takes-to-appreciate-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/13\/what-it-takes-to-appreciate-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes to Appreciate Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Those who must wrest a living from nature by hard toil are not likely    to see her beauty, let alone appreciate it. But her charms are also    lost on the sedentary city dwellers for whom nature is little more    than backdrop and stage setting for what they take to be the really    real, the social tragi-comedy. The same goes for the windshield    tourists who, seated in air-conditioned comfort, merely look upon    nature as upon a pretty picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The true acolyte of nature must combine in one person a robust and    energetic physique, a contemplative mind, and a healthy measure of    contempt for the world of the human-all-too-human, or to transpose into a positive key,&#0160;a deep love of solitude.&#0160; One thinks of Henry    David Thoreau, who famously remarked, &quot;I have no walks to throw away on company.&quot;&#0160;Of the same type, but not on the same lofty plane:    Edward Abbey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who must wrest a living from nature by hard toil are not likely to see her beauty, let alone appreciate it. But her charms are also lost on the sedentary city dwellers for whom nature is little more than backdrop and stage setting for what they take to be the really real, the social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/13\/what-it-takes-to-appreciate-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Takes to Appreciate Nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking-and-backpacking","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}