| | The term "natural world" implies a cultural notion of a place in which humans are somehow not a part. This ideological partition seems to run parallel with some of the seemingly endless conflicts among people. The subtleties of segregation, conquest, bigotry, all seem apparent in Western interpretations of indoors vs. outdoors, civilization vs. wilderness, or master vs. pet. Domestication, enforcement, and the desire to control the land, the water and the animals have a very ominous connection to the way any...
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