Recreation

Do we still have genuine experiences of nature? Or are we living in a postcard of it?

Some centuries ago landscape painters taught us to appreciate the quality of an untouched landscape. Ever since we have been doing everything to recreate it. We camouflage cell phone antenna mast to look like tries. We fly thousands of miles to experience a pristine landscape. Some countries even go so far to reconstruct prehistoric landscapes at obsolete industrial sites – revived extinct animals included.

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‘The regenerated prehistoric landscapes are best understood as theater. Like in a theater play or a movie, we are willing to suspend our disbelief and linger in the imaginary story portrayed before us’
Highlanders in the Lowlands: Re-enactment of an Extinct Cow
Koert van Mensvoort

At the end of every cold winter there is a debate in the Netherlands on whether the forestry service should ...

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Dog Modding in China

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Welcome to the Hearth of the Sun

Life on Earth could not exist without the gigantic nuclear power station of the sun. If it "turned off" the...

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Under the Beach Lies the Pavement

During the riots of 1968 as students in Paris ripped up paving stones and threw them at the police one...